{"id":2143,"date":"2021-07-08T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2021-07-08T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T16:36:19","slug":"hosea-dunbar-a-fan-of-benjamin-e-dunbar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Hosea Dunbar, a FAN of Benjamin E. Dunbar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/070821_1635_HoseaDunbar1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>Hosea Dunbar (1777-1849) was my ancestor Benjamin E. Dunbar&#8217;s younger brother. I have been filling out a Family Group Sheet for Hosea in the hopes of learning more about the greater Dunbar family. Good genealogical research practices tell us to search for members of an ancestor&#8217;s FAN club, meaning their <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">f<\/span>amily, <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">a<\/span>ssociates, and <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">n<\/span>eighbors.\n<\/p>\n<p>Our Dunbar family history, <em>Robert Dunbar of Hingham, Massachusetts<\/em> by Ann Theopold Chaplin (1992), gave me some of Hosea&#8217;s basic information, but it is incomplete and somewhat inaccurate. This genealogy told me that Hosea&#8217;s family migrated from Vermont to New York and then on to Michigan.\n<\/p>\n<p>FindAGrave.com provides the death information for Hosea, his wife Rachel, and all but one of their children. It also names the children&#8217;s spouses.\n<\/p>\n<p>More can be done on this family. Hosea was married in Vermont and some of the children were born there. I should be able to find a Vermont marriage record and birth registrations for them.\n<\/p>\n<p>I may also be able to locate marriage records for any children married in Michigan, although the older ones may have married in New York. I have heard that New York research is difficult, so that may be a dead end.\n<\/p>\n<p>The family eventually settled in Lenawee County, Michigan, arriving by 1840. There ought to be a county history, and perhaps the Dunbars are mentioned therein. If I am lucky, I can find one online.\n<\/p>\n<p>All this means that I have more to do on Hosea&#8217;s family before I move on to other Dunbar family members and associates. My research subject for this year is my own ancestor, Benjamin E. Dunbar (1776-1831). To fully understand his life, I must first finish learning about his FAN Hosea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hosea Dunbar (1777-1849) was my ancestor Benjamin E. Dunbar&#8217;s younger brother. I have been filling out a Family Group Sheet for Hosea in the hopes of learning more about the greater Dunbar family. Good genealogical research practices tell us to search for members of an ancestor&#8217;s FAN club, meaning their family, associates, and neighbors. Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2144,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}