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“Turnersvill [sic] NJ. Near Ware Home” is what is written on the back of this photo. I came into possession of this photo after my Uncle Milt passed away and it has always held a bit of a mystery for me. I wonder what road this is. I wonder when it was taken and where the Ware home is in relation to it. I wonder which Ware home.

My Wares lived in Gloucester Twp, Camden County & Washington Twp, Gloucester County, near Turnersville, NJ. They were farmers and the addresses on the census records were not very clear. I’m not even sure if they lived in the same place or moved around:

Road names change, and sometimes have unofficial names. I love that “Road to Sicklerville”. I may never know where this picture was taken, but I have an idea of the region. This is a google map of the area:

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Things have changed a bit since early last century in that area. Maybe the Ware home is underneath the Atlantic City Expressway now. I don’t know that my “Road near Ware Home” is even remotely recognizable to anyone, but on the off chance, leave a comment below.

I’ve redone my genealogy pages again, both the Conrad-Todd-Garrison-Carman (CTGC) and Mueller-Moisan-Redewill-Harris (MMRH) sites. I’m fairly happy with the results and hopefully this will be the last major change for awhile. They have static pages, which is sort of old school, but maybe the search engines will pick them up now.

I don’t have the sources listed on these pages yet. I moved my genealogy from PAF to TMG, and somehow (probably user error), the sources got messed up and the citations and bibliography don’t display correctly. I am in the process of fixing them and then I can move on to adding the stuff in my filing box. It will be some time before the sources will show up on my genealogy pages. (a limited number of sources for CTGC are available here ) In the meantime, there is an email link at the bottom of each genealogy page. Please use it to contact me if you want to know where I got my information. Some things have better documentation than others, so please don’t assume anything.

People do genealogy for a lot of different reasons. They enjoy collecting family stories. They want to discover where they come from. They love the feeling of being connected to history.
I like filling in names. It’s a bit of an obsession for me. There’s nothing I hate worse than seeing ‘unknown’ in the name field. So I do what I can to find the names, especially the maiden names of the women.
Yesterday, I received the SS-5 for my 2nd cousin, twice removed, Frank L. Craner. The reason I requested it was there in all its glory: his mother’s name was Mathilda Shepard Ogden. I rejoiced. But, then I began to wonder. Shepard and Ogden are names I’ve run across in my NJ research. Who are her parents? I looked at her dates. Oh no, she’d probably be in the 1880 census. But, maybe not with her parents. Maybe there’d be hope for me.
No.
Her parents were Isaac S. & Ann E. Ogden. Another unknown. What was Ann’s maiden name? The search continues.