Talk:US Census Records for Aspen Hill
From Aspen Hill, Maryland, USA
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Also, if you find any Census tracts that have Rabbitt and Beall in it, those are probably good (though I am sure the Rabbitt and Beall geneologists already have copies). Thardman 20:02, 7 December 2009 (EST)
awesome progress! Thardman 11:11, 10 December 2009 (EST)
Thanks, it's pretty easy to automatically extract names from 1900 and newer. but the earlier records would have to be manually transcribed.
Rannie and Gill were useful since they created a homestead and didn't venture too far away from it. I'm not so sure how helpful the Bealls and Rabitts are for tracking property. Seems like they're all over the place. I guess with a name like Rabbitt you have to reproduce...
Gfc62 23:49, 10 December 2009 (EST) ____ You might think so, but actually the Rabbitts had an extremely stable family size, for a time in history in which population explosion across the generations was the norm. This may have something to do with a tendency toward daughters, though that's just a theory at the moment. The family might flourish but the name would be be obscured by marriage.
Remember, at one time the Rabbitt's owned most all of Garter Lost which was a very large tract of land, and they and the Bealls, Rannies and Gills intermarried at least somewhat. Annamarie Rannie Gill, for example, owned the land that later became Vitro (now Home Depot) and the Northgate Plaza Shopping Center. Two early Rannies are buried at the Beall family cemetery, etc.
Evidently the confusion over the branches of the Beall Family was so well known that a lot of newspaper and journal articles of the time tended to mention lineage, as in "son of notable farmer ..." etc.
