Ian Watson — Genealogy Downloads

This page contains links to genealogical resources which I compiled during the mid-1980s.

The material below is copyrighted. You are welcome to download any of this material for research purposes. Republishing, reposting, or redistributing this material without my permission is prohibited.

Contents: Catawba Indians - Warren County N.Y. 1910 census - Pasco family

Introduction

Genealogy was my hobby from 1982 to 1986. It may seem like an odd hobby for a teenager, but I enjoyed it a lot, learned a ton about American history and geography, and carried on a reasonably normal social life at the same time. I still enjoy looking at family papers and photos every now and then and visiting the places where my ancestors lived. What was different about 1982-86 was that I did a huge amount of work on people who were not related to me or only distantly so. Below are copies of all of the material which I had put in electronic form. They are all unfinished works in one way or another, but genealogy is often like that. There is much more information on the Pasco family and the Catawba Indians in my manuscript collections at the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the South Caroliniana Library respectively.

I maintain a separate personal genealogy page on topics that I've been interested in more recently.

Material on the Catawba Indians

Catawba Indian Genealogy by Ian Watson.
Geneseo, N.Y.: Geneseo Foundation, 1995.
State University of New York at Geneseo, Department of Anthropology, Papers in Anthropology, number 4. (Russell A. Judkins, series editor.)

This 125-page monograph contains compiled genealogies for about half the Catawba Indian tribe up to 1910, along with historical and bibilographical commentary and copies of key original documents. It was written in 1986 with the help of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Program. It was published in slightly revised form in 1995.
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A few printed copies are still available for U.S. $20 postpaid by sending a check to Russell Judkins, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, N.Y. 14454 (judkins@geneseo.edu).

The original papers from Catawba Indian Genealogy, including materials on families not covered in the book, are held as the "Ian M. Watson collection" at the South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. OCLC #37375909.

Warren County, New York 1910 Census Transcription

This transcription includes the entire county except for Glens Falls city and part of Warrensburg. It lists name, relationship to head of household, age, and birthplace for more than 16,000 people. I made it in connection with my research on the Pasco family.

A separate Web site offers easy HTML access to this data.
For further information on the transcription see the introduction, from where users wanting more robust access may download the entire thing as an Excel worksheet.

Material on the Pasco family

"The Pasco family in early New England" by Ian Watson
Published in New England Historical and Genealogical Register 150 (1996): 131-140.
This article discusses Hugh Pasco of Salem, Mass., the progenitor of the largest American Pasco family, and his children, as well as other early Pascos in New England.
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"Three Mary Peases of Salem, Massachusetts" by Ian Watson
Published in The American Genealogist 70 (1995): 205-208.
This article establishes the identity of Hugh Pasco's second wife.
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Descendants of Hugh Pasco by Ian Watson
Unpublished compilation (94 single-spaced pages).
This starts where the New England Historical and Genealogical Register article left off and carries forth the descendants of Hugh Pasco starting with the second generation. At the end there is a brief discussion of the allied Abel Pasko line from which I descend, and of the question of Hugh Pasco's English origin. This manuscript reflects my best knowledge as of about 1985. There is much more material in my Pasco manuscripts (see below) which I was never able to integrate into it. Please understand that what you have here is an incomplete work in progress. Much information could be added. The citation and reference systems are not consistent. Nevertheless there is much useful genealogical information here. To protect the privacy of living people the version posted here runs only through the seventh generation.
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An additions and corrections file contains recent contributions from other researchers which are not integrated into the manuscript.
Those interested in Abel Pasko should also consult www.robforrest.com, a Web site maintained by an Abel Pasko descendant.

Seymour Pasko's diary
This is a Civil War diary of a sixth-generation descendant of Hugh Pasco that I transcribed in 1985. Seymour Pasko served in the 96th Regiment, New York State Infantry.
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Leander Pasko-Cal Wood tragedy
This is a collection of newspaper articles about a famous New York State murder from 1890, which I typed up in 1983.
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For more information: All my papers from my research on the genealogy of the Pasco family are held as the Ian Watson Papers (Mss 392), R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Mass. OCLC #47635210.