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Dear Jan; I have no recall of whether I answered your 12 Jan 2003,
Abigail Bill Udall's gravestone is in the Queechee Village, Vermont Cemetery, a few footsteps from the center of town, a beautiful place. Inscription: In memory of Mrs Abigail Udall Consort of the Late Mr Lional Udall who died May 1780 aged [blank].
Lionel1 Udall arrived in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, sometime before the beginning of the second quarter of the eighteenth century, apparently deus ex machina, without established antecedents. His name appears in Town, Church and private records. The framework for discovery of his background and life was written by a great-grandson, John Udell, written from knowledge of family records, lore or traditions.
[[John Udell. Incidents 0f Travel to California, Across The Great Plains; Together With The Return Trips Through Central America and Jamaica; to Which Are Added Sketches of The Author's Life. Jefferson, Ohio; Printed for the Author, at the Sentinel Office. 1856. Hereafter Udell, Incidents of Travel. A copy of the book is available on microfilm from The Disciples of Christ Historical Society, at dishistsoc@aol.com.]]
John Udell wrote that Lionel Udall was an innkeeper and physician of Exeter, England, had a wife Anne and a young son Lionel; he left hurriedly, furtively, for America and arrived in Stonington; after learning of the death of his wife and child, he was a widower and married Abigail2 Bill in 1727, who is also without established antecedents. The accuracy of these statements is not known, is dependent on family lore.
The sole entry I find in the Stonington Town records for Lionel Udall and Abigail Bill, [[Stonington, Records of land, earmarks, marriages, births, deaths ca.1714-1831. FHL Microfilm no. 1309872 Items 1-3. Item 2: Book 3, Page 97. (Entry not continued onto page 98.)]] progenitors of one Udall/Udell family in America, is an exhibit of their marriage with names and birth dates of nine of their eleven children. They were married by Rev. Mr Ebenezer Russell, [[Wheeler, History, Church, Stonington . 219. Oct. 22, 1727, . . . The same day, Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Russell in ye North Parish, baptized . . .
• Wheeler, History, Church, Stonington, 228-229. Feb. 22, 1727, A Church was formed in North Stonington.]] pastor [of the North Stonington Congregational Church], in Stonington, Connecticut on 30 Oct 1727. That Udall family record was entered, probably, sometime after 1766. One official copy,[[Stonington, Records of land, earmarks, marriages, births, deaths ca.1714-1831. FHL Microfilm no. 1309872 Items 1-3. Item 3, page 50; copy of Item 2: Book 3, Page 97.]] entered in 1895, [[Stonington, Records of land, earmarks, marriages, births, deaths ca.1714-1831. FHL Microfilm no. 1309872 Items 1-3.
• Film 1309872 Item 1 begins with page 323, and ends with page 503.
• Film 1309872 Item 2 has 279 pages. Item 2 is Book 3.
• Births Marriages and Deaths from Book 3 are indexed, partially, and were hand copied in 1896, both the vital records and the partial index, "The foregoing Births Marriages and Deaths were copied and by me compared, and taken from Book No. 3, of this Town, which said book No. 3. Embraced and contains other Town records and said work was authorized to be done by the Town at a legal town Meeting duly warned and held in Borough Hall Sept. 16" A.D. 1895. Correct and true copies Attest, Elias B. Hinckley, Town Clerk & Registrar Stonington, Ct May 6 1896." Page 224. [Correct and true copies' have several cosmetic differences, among them, spelling.]]] was stated to have been "copied and compared, . . . correct and true", yet several differences are present, including changes of orthography, spelling of names, and date format.
An important secondary source of titbits on life in Stonington, information on Udall, and Church records is Wheeler. Wheeler abstracted admissions, baptisms, and sundries from the Church records of Stonington, and his comments and abstracts suggest further records searches. I view Wheeler as a most valuable source.
Microfilm is itself at best a duplicate of original material; examples can be found where the original records are copies, (land and vital records), entered as copy into books of record by the Town Clerk.
Photographic images of the records of Towns, Counties, States, Churches, histories, bibles, - almost any record existing - have been filmed, formatted as microfilm by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) (Mormon). Each microfilm can be made available to anyone for a fee, currently (11May02) $3.50 for a short-term, and $9.00 for an indefinite loan, at their nearest Family History Center [FHC], a non-sectarian adjunct to almost every LDS church.
Their library catalog is available on CD-ROM, and on-line at www.familysearch.com. Their collection includes over 2.2 million rolls of microfilmed genealogical records; 742,000 microfiche; 300,000 books, serials, and other formats; and 4,500 periodicals.
The microfilm used here from LDS are each, probably, at least a copy of a copy of that filmed by the Library, and there is no custodial line of descent, or genealogy, provided for each microfilm. Mills cautions that "A RECORD'S CUSTODIAL HISTORY AFFECTS ITS TRUSTWORTHYNESS", and that "sophisticated electronic tools permit the production of fake records . . . " [[Mills, Evidence! Citation & Analysis, 55-56.]]
In the main, no original records are herein used, and microfilm is scanned by eye, and desired pages photocopied at the FHC. The photocopies can be then scanned optically into an electronic file, named and saved in a graphics format. Those copies of text which can be sensed and converted to English are processed through "optical character recognition", a useful technique. Citations made should lead to the sources, and eventually to the original.
Certain of these sources are transcripts of the original and all found offer difference(s), "correction of punctuation, grammar, and spelling", from the original. The better are "Extracts: verbatim transcripts of selected portions of documents." There is no best.
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