Before you go any further!
Please note that the data provided here is
accurate only to the extent that I believe I have copied it correctly. Much of
this information is unverified and therefore you must do what you must to
confirm it to your satisfaction. If you find any errors in what I have presented
here please let me know.
The Daggett information came primarily from
books by Samuel Bradlee Doggett and George & Sydney Daggett.
Mooers came from many sources but
primarily Daniel Mooers, Esq.
Confirmation on Barrett's came from
Marydenise Daggett
Preble's from Col. Charles Preble and several
of his friends
Purrington's from my Aunt Dorothy and
several acquaintances.
Dunn's from the internet and many folks online.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
William Shakespere
Why do I do genealogy? I think part of the answer is in this quote:
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiation of their personalities.
Kahlil Gibran, poet and artist (1883-1931)
"There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
Dave Berry
My Link in Time
By Ann Glasgow
From lands and seas that I shall never know,
complex roads have merged their path to me.
Translucent threads of ancient lives before
interwove this web which is my pedigree.
Cultures of many nations formed the loom,
and laced the strands of fiber to evolve
a potpourri of souls who braved the path
of destiny with passion and resolve.
And now this fertile ribbon to which
I weave a plait to braid and join the next in line;
people and histories which I may only dream
may know about this link in time that's mine.
The average man will
bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he
discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. -- Bern Williams
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My Daggett Ancestor Tree
This is only my straight line Ancestry, there are over 13,300 (Up to 17500 entries as of 9/1/2002) people listed in the family tree in my computer, if you have a genealogy program or would like some specific information please contact me...
Genealogy
Only 1 YOU
2 parents
4 grandparents
8 g grandparents
16 gg grandparents
32 ggg grandparents
64 gggg grandparents
128 ggggg grandparents
256 gggggg grandparents
512 ggggggg grandparents
1,024 gggggggg grandparents
2,048 ggggggggg grandparents
4,096 gggggggggg grandparents
8,192 ggggggggggg grandparents
16,184 gggggggggggg grandparents
32,368 ggggggggggggg Grandparents
For a total of 65535 people in my family tree (Not counting Aunts, Uncles and Cousins) if I go back only 16 generations So, I have only 52,235 more people to find ... wish me luck.
From a Purinton Cousin:
Genealogy Lesson for us
genealogy buffs and others.
"Respond to the following questions by a show of hands," my professor
instructed.
"How many of you can tell me something about your parents?" Everyone's hand went
up.
"How many of you can tell me something about your grandparents?" About
three-fourths of the class raised their hands.
"How many of you can tell me something about your great-grandparents?" Two out
of sixty students raised their hands.
"Look around the room," he said. "In just two short generations hardly any of us
even know who our own great-grandparents were. Oh sure, maybe we have an old,
tattered photograph tucked away in a musty cigar box or know the classic family
story about how one of them walked 5 miles to school barefoot. But how many of
us really know who they were, what they thought, what they were proud of, what
they were afraid of, or what they dreamed about? Think about that. Within three
generations our ancestors are all but forgotten. Will this happen to you?"
"Here's a better question. Look ahead three generations. You are long gone.
Instead of you sitting in this room, now it's your great-grandchildren. What
will they have to say about you? Will they know about you? Or will you be
forgotten, too? Is your life going to be a warning or an example? What legacy
will you have? The choice is yours. Class dismissed."
Nobody rose from their seat for a good five minutes.
Naming Conventions
Our ancestors often used the following naming procedure when picking out a name for a new child. This explains why certain names are VERY common in a given family line. Watching for these patterns can help in your genealogy research.
1st son = father's father
2nd son = mother's father
3rd son = father
4th son = father's oldest brother
5th son = father's 2nd oldest brother or mother's oldest brother
1st dau = mother's mother
2nd dau = father's mother
3rd dau = mother
4th dau = mother's oldest sister
5th dau = mother's 2nd oldest sister or father's oldest sister
Subject: 1901 compared to 2001
The average life expectancy in the United States was 47.
Only 14% of the homes in the United States had a bathtub.
Only 8% of the homes had a telephone.
A three minute call from Denver to New York City cost eleven dollars.
There were only 8,000 cars in the US and 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was ten mph.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents, California was only the twenty-first most populous state in the Union.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.
The average wage in the US was twenty-two cents an hour.
The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year.
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist $2500 per year, a veterinarian between $1500 and $4000 per year and a mechanical engineer about $5000 per year.
More than 95% of all births in the United States took place at home.
Ninety percent of all US physicians had no college education. Instead, they attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press and by the government as "substandard."
Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen. Coffee cost fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month and used borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country for any reason, either as travelers or immigrants.
The five leading causes of death in the US were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.
Drive by shootings in which teenage boys galloped down the street on horses and started randomly shooting at houses, carriages, or anything else that caught their fancy were an ongoing problem in Denver and other cities in the West.
The population of Las Vegas, Nevada was thirty. The remote desert community was inhabited by only a handful of ranchers and their families.
Plutonium, insulin, and antibiotics hadn't been discovered yet.
Scotch tape, crossword puzzles, canned beer and iced tea hadn't been invented.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
One in ten US adults couldn't read or write.
Only 6% of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter at corner drugstores.
According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
Coca~Cola contained cocaine instead of caffeine.
Punch card data processing had recently been developed, and early predecessors of the modern computer were used for the first time by the government to help compile the 1900 census.
Eighteen percent of households in the United States had at least one fulltime servant or domestic.
There were about 230 reported murders in the US annually.
