The Register is an attempt to record the name and basic data about every person named Ames
who has lived in the
United States.
UPDATE
'Every name' has turned out to be too daunting a task.
Names already on the Register will not be removed, but hereafter
only the descendants of William and Hannah will be added.
From the Register you can distinguish between persons with the same name,
find their parents, spouse(s), children, the dates and places of their
birth, marriage, death, and
link to the main references, family sheets, and
other sources.
The Register is limited to those with Ames as their surname at birth,
or else were the spouse or the child of such a person.
The Register is arrayed in 8 columns which hopefully are fairly obvious.
F is
the Father's ID and S is the Spouse's. Ref is the Reference or Source.
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HOW TO FIND....
Suppose you want information about Sylvanus
Ames. ============================================================================= ID | Name | F | Born In| Died In| S | Married In| Ref. ====|==============|====|=============|=============|====|=============|===== 0048+Ames, Sylvanus|0096|01.20.1744-MA|05.15.1778-PA|0049|09.20.1768-MA|01000
From that same line you can use CTRL+F to go to Sylvanus' FATHER whose ID is 0096 and Sylvanus' SPOUSE whose number is 0049. Then Sylvanus' MOTHER can be found as the spouse of his father. Her number is 0097. Sylvanus' CHILDREN can be identified by finding his ID (0048) in their F column, indicating that he is their father. A plus sign (+) indicates "more". If it's after the ID (as in our example) it means there is more information about Sylvanus at http://john.rootsweb.com/Ames/0048-f.html You might like to bookmark this URL http://john.rootsweb.com/Ames/####-f.html to use with other names. For someone else, if they have an ID+, then substitute their ID instead of the "####" but in exactly the same URL. If there's no + after the ID, then there's no more information besides what's here. Can you supply some? If there's a plus after his Spouse's ID (not the case here) it means he had more than one spouse. Find his ID in the S column to locate the other spouse's name(s) and information. Here his ID (0048) will appear only in the S column for his wife at 0049. For women, when there's an ID+ (suggesting more information), that information is on their family page. There's only a single listing for the family unit, so use her husband's ID (from her Spouse or "S" column) to find his ID.
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So, if we translate this single line of code into text, we learn that:
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Sylvanus Ames (0048) was born in Massachusetts on the 20th of January, 1744. He was the son of Thomas Ames (0096) and Keziah Howard (0097). Sylvanus married Huldah Johnson (0049) on September 20, 1768, in Massachusetts. He was 24, her age is not given. They had four children: Bezer (1074), Sylvanus (0024), Cyrus (1075), and Hulda (1076). Sylvanus Ames died in Pennsylvania on May 15, 1778. Still more details are available on their family page at http://john.rootsweb.com/Ames/0048-f.html. There we found that he was a graduate of Harvard, was an Anglican (Episcopal) Priest, Rector of Trinity Church, Taunton, MA, in 1773. He froze to death in the bitter winter at Valley Forge, at the age of 34, all for the love of country, leaving a widow and 4 small children. |
If this is really more than you wanted to know, just disregard it and enjoy whatever may be helpful. This same process works the same way for all of them.
If you have questions or comments, an email should get a prompt reply.