Along the top and bottom of each page, you will notice that there is a new link in the navigation: Images.  Right now there are only three links that are ‘live’ on the page: 1820, 1830, and sources.  I’ve decided to split it up in this way, so that I can add more records later, if needed.  As I have been adding these census images, I have also been updating the William & Rebecca page, with links that will take you to the image thumbnail of the census I am discussing.

When you are on one of the thumbnail pages (so far only 1820 and 1830) when you click the image, a new window will open showing you a larger image.  I think most browsers are pretty much the same on this: you should be able to click on the large image to get it to 100% and then be able to scroll through the image.

This side project may take me a little bit to get all caught up, so please bear with me.  I have about 75 images of census records only that only cover William and Rebecca (Oney) Corel, Jemima Corel and David McGlothlin, Mary McGlothlin, Henry H. McGlothlin, Martha Jane McGlothlin, Shadrack McGlothlin, Henry Highland and Nancy Matney, Jemima M. Corel, and Julia Ann Corel.  I also have images showing war service, newspaper articles, birth and death records, pages from books, and marriage records!  I have also gathered some of the images for the Corel by Chance families.  On the bright side, this will give me some time while I wait for my latest request for inter library loan, on the Parman family.  I think that I will also try to do some preliminary research on the children of Mary Ester Corel Puckett, so I might be able to start moving a bit quicker.  Well, except for the next week – I have jury duty!  I’m hoping I won’t be selected, so I will be able to do my research, but I may very well be stuck without a computer next week!! 

After weighing the options on how to resolve this issue, I have decided that I am going to create an Image Library, fully documented with source information, but not the web address of the Ancestry.com page I found the information.  On items that are just in a database, with no images to reference, I will take a “snapshot” of the web page with the pertinent info.

I’m not completely sure of just how I am going to do this Image Library.  Rather than trying to create a library for each individual, I think it might be easier to have different sections, such as: Census, Books, Marriage Records, Birth Records, Death Records, Grave Markers, People, Places, and Misc.

I was wanting to do something similar to this on the site, to include photos and such in a centralized location, but I wasn’t planning on working on it right away.  For now, so that I can get everything up and loaded, I will just enter the images in their appropriate section.  I am thinking I will create a simple page that will have thumbnails linking to the full sized images, without a lot of details about the images.

If you have any thoughts or ideas on this, please let me know!

The next page will be Julia Ann Corel Myers.  I know that there is quite a bit of info out there on the Myers family, but I’m hoping I will not get quite as caught up as I did with the Salathiel’s!

• For anyone who is new to Corel Cousins, I’d like to refer you to our Welcome page.  This page gives a bit of background on the Corel family, as well as many variations of how the name has been spelled through the years.
• If you would like to contact any of the researchers on the Corel family, I have listed them on the Contact Us page.  At the top of the page you will find links for each child of William and Rebecca so you do not have to scroll through the entire page to find what you are looking for.  There is also a contact email for the Corel – Oney Family Reunion and the webmaster.  For those who would rather just ask a quick question or make a comment, rather than send an email, there is a contact form at the bottom that can be submitted.
• On the Calendar page, you will find a Google Calendar that has dates of births and marriages for the Corel family.  I hope to add more to this soon, including information about the family reunion in 2010.  If you see something that is wrong, or if you have a date that is not listed on the calendar, please be sure to let me know!
• I have done a lot of my research online, and you will find the most valuable places I have found information on the Links page.  You will also find some links on individual pages.  I have found a plugin that allows me to enter footnotes easily within my pages and blog posts, so I am documenting when and where I have found things as I am writing now.
• The William and Rebecca page currently has a brief introduction to the founders of this family.  As I have been researching and working on this site, I have found much more that I need to add to this page.  This page also has a link to the Corel – Oney Union page which provides a copy of the original marriage record of William and Rebecca.
• On the Corel – Oney Children page you will find a list of the fourteen children of William and Rebecca.  The children that married and had children of their own are linked from this page, as well as the sidebar on your right.
• The Corel by Chance page provides links to the families that have joined the Corel family.  You will also find these families listed in the sidebar on the right.

I have made this blog post “sticky” so that it will show up at the top of the main page as a starting point for anyone new to the website.

I have just completed the page for the parents (Mary Ann Neidigh and James Joseph McGhee) of the last family to marry the children of Rebecca Oney and William Corel!  I am so very excited to be at this point, because it was a place I never thought I would be.  I do have some additional things to add to this McGee family, but I think that it is time to move this site forward and to start examining the grandchildren of William and Rebecca.  I’d like to thank everyone who has stuck around the past two years for me to get to this point in designing the website.

I want to reiterate that I am always looking for photos of our family.  If you have any photos you are willing to share, please send me an email!

I am also looking for a plugin that will allow me to insert links to different blog posts on the pages, based upon categories.  If anyone familiar with WordPress has seen anything like this, please let me know.

The last update blog post I did, I wrote about how I did not think that Robert Emmitt McGlothlin was a child of Judith Leathers and John McLaughlin.  Cousin by marriage, Teresa Klaiber, shared some information with me, as well as some conversations she had with her mother-in-law, and now I believe that Robert Emmitt McGlothlin must have at least been raised by Judith Leathers and John McLaughlin.  On the McGlothlin page, I share the reasons why I do not think that Judith Leathers is the mother of Robert Emmitt McGlothlin, but since I do believe that she played a part in his life, I also have a link to the information I found on Judith Leathers and John McLaughlin (found here and on the McGlothlin page under Corels by Chance) and what is believed to be their descendants.

In addition to the McGlothlin family, I have also added the Matney family.  There is also conflicting theories on the ancestry of the Matney’s and who is the father of Brooks Matney who married Jane Young.  As these families are not my direct lines, and much of the research I have done for each of these families is no more than a week of scouring the internet, I have decided to go with the majority on this question.  On the Matney page you will find links to the descendants of both Walter Matney and Brooks Matney.

A page has also been created for the Dobbins family.  This is the family I have spent the least amount of time on because Cousin Bobby Dobbins Title has been so kind to share her work with me for this site.  On the Dobbins page you will find the descendants of Robert B. Dobbins and Katy Alexander, as well as a link to a page for James Alexander Dobbins and Elizabeth Perkins.  I also have a link for a wonderful essay written by Cousin Bobby on this line.

Along the top and bottom of each of the pages on this site, you will see the main page links for this site:  Home, Calendar, Contact Us, Welcome!, William & Rebecca, Corel-Oney Children, and Corel by Chance. 

• Home is the main page you see when you come to Corel Cousins.
• Calendar is something new I thought might be fun to share important dates in the Corel family.  I have created a Google Calendar and so far I have added the birth dates, marriage dates, and death dates for William Corel and Rebecca Oney and their children.  I plan to add more dates to the calendar at a later time, most importantly the Corel-Oney reunion will be added once a date has been decided on!  If anyone has any dates they would specifically like to see, or if you see a correction that needs made, please let me know!  This is a public calendar on Google, so anyone who is already using GCal can add this to their personal calendar.
• Contact Us is similar to the ‘Corel Researchers’ page on the original site.  I have included names and email addresses, as well as photos for those that I had, for the different sections of the family.  I have also added Connie Bishop to the top of the page as the contact for the family reunion.  At the bottom of the page is a contact form if anyone wants to drop a quick note to me without getting into their email program.
• Welcome! gives a brief history of what is going on with this site, and it’s purpose.  It was the home page on the original site.
• William & Rebecca gives the history of William Corel and Rebecca Oney Corel.
• Corel-Oney Children lists the
• Corel by Chance is the page for the links of the allied families, most of which came into the Corel family by marriage.

On the sidebar, I have two ‘widgets’ I’d like to point out.  You can find these ‘widgets’ beneath the Corel Cousins links.  By the way, if anyone has a website who is a Corel Cousin and it isn’t listed, please let me know so I can add your site!  The first ‘widget’ is Google Friend Connect.  For those of you who are already active with the Google products, this is a way we can stay connected.  The second ‘widget’ is for FaceBook.  I have many of you already as FaceBook friends, and if other family members are out there are on FaceBook, I would like to add you, as well.  This widget is for anyone who is on FaceBook to follow this blog from within FaceBook, and it lets me know that I have a couple of people who might like it!

So this is what is new on Corel Cousins since my last update.  I am in the process of completing quite a few more pages!  I am nearly done with a page for the Justice family.  I’ve been researching for the Puckett family page.  Which reminds me, I’ve tried emailing Cousin Sandy who is a Puckett descendant, and haven’t heard back from her.  Has anyone heard from her recently?  Did she perhaps change email addresses?  I’d love to hear from any Puckett descendants, because I’m really struggling with this line!  I need to start on the McGee family.  I think it scares me because it’s my line and I have so much info scattered everywhere on this family!  Plus I’m afraid this might end up looking like a McGee site if I go a bit overboard!  I have been compiling a links page that will be included on the top and bottom menu on each page.  I could probably put it up now and just add to it as I need to….  Look for that soon, I will probably do that!  The next thing I’ve been working on is one thing that really had me nervous before…. I’ve started working on the grandchildren of William and Rebecca!  You may have noticed that I have also started participating in a blog meme called Tombstone Tuesday.  This is to help me make sure that I remain active on this site, and so you all know I’m still here!  If anyone has a tombstone photo that they would like featured here, please send it to me!

Finally, I want to share a bit of my thought process with you.  As I am going through these lines and I am seeing other families mingle in with the Corel descendants, I am looking to see the connections.  This is part of what fascinates me is how this family mixes it up so much with other families.

For instance, what I found yesterday was that Lucinda Meek and Melinda Meek were sisters.  Lucinda married James Whitehead Ward and Melinda married his brother, Jonathan Ward.  After Jonathan died, Melinda married David McGlothlin, widower after Jemima Corel’s death, on July 19, 1853.  Lucinda’s son, George Washington Ward married Mary McGlothlin, oldest child of Jemima Corel and David McGlothlin, on July 31, 1854.

I have also started the Corel by Chance section.  The first family I have been working on is the Peart family.  Three Peart children were living with William and Rebecca Oney Corel during the 1850 census, after their mother died in January 1850.  Although it is difficult trying to trace the children, I can tell that Mary Louisa Peart and William B. Peart seemed to remain close to the family.  I have completed Mary Louisa’s page and found it quite interesting to see who some of her neighbors were during each of the census years.  I hope to finish my research on William B. and have that uploaded tomorrow.

Next, I think I might try to tackle the McGlothlin’s!

Although I haven’t been very present here on the site, I have definitely been digging into genealogy by contacting distant cousins that I’m finding on Ancestry.com.  I’m hoping that they will share their lines with us all and I have invited each of them to the family reunion.

I am also being very mindful of not losing track of the original ideas we had (that can still be found by going to corelcousins.com/index.htm).  I think that the next thing I will work on is a contact page with all of the researchers listed as they were on the original site.

As it was before, if anyone has any ideas, or thoughts about what I’m planning or what you’ve seen or would like to see, please, PLEASE leave a comment or drop me an email!