Descendants of Thomas Hardesty




THOMAS HARDESTY

OF

GREENE COUNTY, INDIANA

AND HIS

ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS


1976 - 81
28 Mar. 1988
18 May 1991
30 Oct. 1995
7 Oct 2002
July 2005
All versions since 1977 copyrighted

A friendly WARNING to all - DO NOT global search out and replace any state or country abbrevations for Places ie IN, IL, Scot Eng. etc. as no matter if caps or small case the correction you type in for IN such as Indiana will be entered into any word that has an "in" in it!. This is why we come up with the garbled places in many GedCom files. I am still in the process of changing these over and trying to decipher the garbled place names if possible. I have done some more work on it this past week I have gotten allot of the garbled data changed, and anothers incorrect entry for name - but still alot of work to be done - I have found sources on the internet to help document and fill in the death dates - I an up to Con on the surnames of checking the files against internet sources available.

I see I still have alot of "Unknowns" yet to delete. The word "UNKNOWN" has never appeared in my files - I just leave it blank if I can not provide a date or place, smae with names unless it is needed and I have switched to [-?-] for an unknown name. I have been able to take out some of what I call "over sourcing" if a source such as a census refers to all the household I have put it under the "head of household" only for that census years. Another over sourcing was some of the obituary information. It is just taking time to pull.

This has been an on going project since 1976 - Minnie White now deceased of Greene county, gave me my start on my Hardesty-Emery-Edington lineage, and after her death her daughter Wilma S. (White) Rollins. Also of Greene county Indiana was Clarice Alma Hord and her husband Claude Matthew Lynch they were wonderful pen-pals on the Hardesty line and sought out much of the information and helped gather it and helped promote the "booklet" as long as they were alive. Also 2 or 3 avid researches of the Ashcraft-Hardesty-Emery lines sent in their Ashcraft data of all lines they were working - at least one or two were doing a genealogy on the Ashcraft's of Greene county - as we have been doing for the Hardesty's.

All material in this data base was freely submitted by family researchers for publication into the a booklet that started out as 50 pages back in 1982 - and when someone seen their line omitted would send data and demand the data be put in and an updated version - back then it was a xerox project of 15 to 20 copies - the people dedicated to sharing - seeking out information or those - who people seem to migrate towards - to finding out infromation got a copy such as the Lynchs (now deceased), Jack Hardesty, Charles Edington (now deceased), Irene Fithen - got a new updated version when it warranted - other wise the cost of the booklet no matter what over the years was limited to cost of xeroxing, binding and postage.

I laid it all on the back burner in August 1990 for several years except for trying to keep the obits or deaths recorded from the Bloomfield News - Evening World which are now the Greene County Daily World; and collecting additional information by this way only during the years after. Once in while since August 1990 I have been contacted by researchers - sending correction - additional data and wanting it in the next manuscript for publication - but financially there is no way at present -

I put off for years trying to data base the manuscript but finally was forced to as it needed to be re-numbered - it needed to be proofed and the info I had hand written into the manuscript since about 1994 had to be entered also - and I wanted to put my documentation into it and start documenting the information that had been sent - there was no way that the word files would make this an easy task and support it over the many pages - thus I opted for this format - and a way to make a manuscript that always had a correct and full numbering system. I have cut and pasted the original manuscript into the database as a source - one reason the documenation will not be put in as it contains old addresses and phone numbers of those who wanted them entered. But I did not want to loose my orginial work either over the years.
I still have the Word computer files and the very old paper copy which was printed out in October of 1995 (300 plus pages) - but when I can get enough ink and paper I am going to try and see how this will print out a book format with the data and sourcing - a challenge but there is alot of work to the sourcing end and proofing end as yet before that can happen if ever.

And since getting the internet - I have been checking databases online - and trying to get missing links added in through the all the census 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 and the SSDI. But to do that efficiently I had to data base the manuscript instead of the typed version - Thus I am able to do alot more of comments, notes & notations; sourcing - addresses, e-mails, newspaper articles, biographies etc. I have a place in this PAF program to put address etc. in and used that to take it directly out of the manuscript.
When Mary Lou Combs Wiles Brewer was president (in the 1980's) I donated an updated copy each time to the Historical Society to be placed in the Bloomfield Library - whether they got there I do not know.

The English data base - contains 2085 people, descendants, spouses and the spouses parents names if known - not all are in as yet. This has the english ancestors as well as the descendants of Francis Hadesty and his wives Ruth Morely and Dorcas Linthicum; Francis came to America sometime prior to 13 Jan. 1703. This is the work of many people over the years - Irene Fithen, June Smith, and John Dean "Jack" Hardesty descendants of Thomas and Nancy Ann (Chaney) Hardesty. Irene and June are the ones who shared the early England line with me first. Their is also a Hardisty cousin in England working on this branch.

Jack Hardesty - has it on the internet too He is in Quincy, Ill. His site is here. Also Alan Hardisty of England has a site - it is here.


This database is not perfected as yet and probably never will be - as I imported some files and had a mess I have just started opening some of the source notes and notes to see what doubles I have - I THINK I have weed out all the - double entries of people - There is a lot of documentation - but all has to be gone through - I am trying to figure out an economical way to print it all out - if it can be. I have put my original manuscript in and well as that of Jack Hardesty's that he shared with me. As a means of proofing the data entry process. Their are 8412 people in the databases, descendants, spouses and the spouses parents names if known - not all are in as yet. There is 9,846 citations and 19,535 notes. There is two sorcing going for census records too that I am trying to clean up.

For some reason when PAF makes the webpages from the data base it puts in the sourcing #'s even though I have locked the sources and notes out - Reason for this some of the sourcing notes contain addresses and possibly phone #'s - I know I did in my Word file as soem people submitted there data that way. Also the IGI, Ancestral File and other data base online contain addresses.

Sources include Obits; SSDI enteries in full, cemetery records; death, birth and marriage index information, biographies from any county history no matter what year, census records that are availabe to 1930. When unsure of data such as Social Security Death Index (SSDI) it is put into the notes.

Link to Thomas's ancestors:
William Hardesty of England.


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