The first identified ancestor of this line is Christopher Knisell. He also went by the name "Stoffel" and "Christian." It is uncertain...

When I initially did the post on Cheddar Man, (click here to view) I omitted the issue of what he may have looked like. Facial...

Isaac Hite, Jr. was born 7 February 1758 at his father's estate, Long Meadows, Middletown, Frederick County in the Shenandoah Valley, VA....

In honor of Halloween, here is a skeleton story. Recently I was on Family Tree DNA reviewing my results and there was a feature I had not...

Here is another notable relative connected through the Holmes branch. There are probably very few people in history who have so shrouded...

Here is a connection to another President. This one is through the Holmes line. Since everyone probably knows a lot about Abraham...

In 1638, after six weeks of a tempestuous sea and storm voyage, Obadiah Holmes, Sr., his wife and 3 year old son Jonathan, arrived in...

The Holmes branch of the family starts in Manchester, England. The surname was originally spelled Hulme and begins with Robert Hulme of...

Well, it turns out that there is another Hollywood tough guy hanging out in the branches of my Potter line. Clinton Eastwood, Jr. was...

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born 14 June 1811 in Litchfield, CT to the Reverend Lyman Beecher and Roxanna (nee Foote) Beecher, the...

Before he was a Hollywood icon known as John Wayne, he was simply Marion Robert Morrison. He was born on 26 May 1907 in Winterset, Iowa,...

Welcome to my 100th Post! As mentioned in the previous post "The Clann Donnachaidh," Daniel Robertson was the first of the Robbins...

The first of the Robbins (Robins) line in America was Daniel Robinson. He was born in Blair-Athol, Pertshire, Scotland in 1627 to...

It is fun to find out about your ancestors and about the history that they lived. But, every amateur genealogist has in the back of his...

The story of the Potter line begins in Lewes, the county town of East Sussex in England. Lewes began as a Saxon village. The Saxons...

It is likely that everyone has heard of the Boston Tea Party that took place on 6 December 1773. It was one of the most iconic events of...

Let me now introduce the Gardiners, another Quaker family who left England and settled in "West Jersey." In this line, there is also...

Johann Friederich "Frederick" Weaver (Weber) and his family arrived in Philadelphia from Rotterdam aboard the Two Brothers on or before...

In honor of Mother's Day, here are some photos of my mom. As a high school senior, she was elected as Queen of the Mardi Gras at Clayton,...

Most people will probably recognize this relative of mine. When one thinks of this 37th President of the United States, the first thing...