My Sister's Husband's Daughter's Grandmother's Daughter

Anyone interested to know how many of the Haigler families are connected either by marriage or birth?

I became interested in genealogy several years ago after my mother spent many hours constructing a TREE with branches and leaves showing 15 generations of Crabtree ancestors that she had connected by obtaining family information from others and searching of her own.

The internet has made it alot easier to find these connections. It used to take a visit in person to a genealogy library such as the one in Salt Lake City, Utah where there were miles of microfiche records of the U.S. Census and many other documents listing family connections.

One of the things I noticed when looking at the tree mamma had created was that there were a lot of people from the Haigler area shown there.

We spent many hours getting all of her information entered into a computer program, first using PAF a DOS based program produced by the LDS people in Utah. We have migrated to Family Tree Maker that allows us to click on someone's name and search through records on the internet and find census records, newspaper references, historical documents and many other sources of information.

Running into road blocks is quite common and it is sometimes by chance that you find a connection. It might be in a forum where someone wrote about the very person you are looking for or it may come with a new document being posted somewhere on the internet. It is a challenging hunt that can keep a person occupied for hours at a time.

One of my roadblocks is the family of George Bartlett. We have found his father and siblings, but cannot seem to get farther back than that. Seems that Jacob Harvey Bartlett (George's father) was born in New York, migrated to Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and possibly Nebraska, but he died when George was 8 years old and the connection with the family who stayed back in New York has somehow stayed concealed. We will continue looking.

George Bartlett homesteaded land south of Parks in what is now known as and marked on the maps as Bartlett Canyon.

One of his daughers, Bessie Mae Bartlett married Frank Crabtree and was my grandmother.

George Bartlett, Rich Gregory,
Frank Crabtree and
Leah (Gregory) Brewer.

Another of his daughters, Ruth (Bartlett) Wiley, married Frank Wiley. Their children were Ben Wiley, Frances Irene (Wiley) Rose, Dorothy (Wiley) DiGregorio, Doris (Wiley) Schorzman and William Royce Wiley.

Another was my aunt Georgia (Bartlett) Stafford, who was married to Lute Stafford and owned and operated a general store in Parks, Nebraska.

More Genealogy later: Most people can only take this subject a little bite at a time!

Esther (Hughs) Bartlett,

Alice (Crabtree) Gregory
Bessie Mae (Bartlett) Crabtree
Baby is Leah (Gregory) Brewer

I believe these pictures were taken at the Bartlett homestead south of Parks, Nebraska in the spring of 1940.