{"id":25153,"date":"2017-09-13T10:42:17","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T14:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=25153"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:36:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:36:29","slug":"but-wait-theres-more-finding-details-for-my-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/but-wait-theres-more-finding-details-for-my-family-tree.html","title":{"rendered":"But Wait, There\u2019s More: Finding Details for My Family Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was a good day.
\nI was looking in my family tree at my 4th Great-Grandfather\u2019s line: Sylvanus Brundage (1774-1832)<\/span> and his wife Elizabeth (1780-1850)<\/span>. They lived in Mount Pleasant, Westchester County, New York.<\/p>\n

Finding information about him and his descendants has been difficult.<\/p>\n

Over the years, I have found there has been nothing compiled on this family line on FamilySearch, Ancestry, etc. So today I decided to dig a little deeper into this part of the family tree, and searched GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I started looking at their daughter Mary M. Brundage (1797- )<\/span>. I found that she had married Stephen Acker (1800-1871)<\/span>, and by looking at the 1830 through 1870 census records I found two of their children. I felt like I had a good handle on this family.<\/p>\n

I next found Stephen Acker\u2019s probate records and added that information to my list of sources \u2013 but before I finished adding it, I decided to look at the probate paperwork to see what clues it held.<\/p>\n

Stephen had died intestate, and the paperwork noted that \u201cWillet A. Cronk, son-in-law of Stephen Acker\u201d was named the executor of his estate.<\/p>\n

Wait, Willet A. Cronk \u2013 who is he?
\nI had one daughter of Stephen and Mary (Brundage) Acker, Cornelia Acker (1838-1885)<\/span>, and she had married Nathaniel Eckert (1834-1914)<\/span> and not Willet A. Cronk.<\/p>\n

Who in the family did Willet A. Cronk (1826- )<\/span> marry?
\nTurning to GenealogyBank, I found out.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Westchester Herald (Ossining, New York), 23 January 1849, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I see. The undiscovered daughter was Hester A. Acker, and she married Willet A. Cronk in January 1849. So, that is why I didn\u2019t find her listed in the home of Stephen & Elizabeth Acker in the 1850, 1860, etc., census records.<\/p>\n

Looking more at the Acker family, I found that Stephen\u2019s father was Deliverance Acker and the family line extended back to Wolfert Acker (1667-1753)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Turning back to GenealogyBank, I found this article about Wolfert Acker.<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a>
Source: GenealogyBank, Albany Evening Journal (Albany, New York), 3 February 1855, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It turns out that this was the Wolfert Acker who built his home in Tarrytown, New York \u2013 better known to most of us as Sleepy Hollow. A century later, the property was sold to author Washington Irving<\/a>, who expanded the house and named it Sunnyside<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Illustration:<\/a>
Illustration: Currier and Ives print \u201cSunnyside,\u201d the home of author Washington Irving, in Tarrytown, New York, c. 1860. Credit: New York Public Library Digital Collection; Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> As you research and gather your family history, be sure to search GenealogyBank\u2019s old newspaper archive to find the details of their births and marriages \u2013 and the stories of your ancestors\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this article, Tom Kemp describes finding details about members of his family descended from Sylvanus and Elizabeth Brundage, including Wolfert Acker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[12,2719,2020],"class_list":["post-25153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/photo-0913-2017-featured-graphic-sunnyside.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77505,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25153\/revisions\/77505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}