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Dec 13, 20211 min read
The Knisells
The first identified ancestor of this line is Christopher Knisell. He also went by the name "Stoffel" and "Christian." It is uncertain...
Dec 6, 20216 min read
Cheddar Man 2 - The Face of Controversy
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...
Nov 22, 20213 min read
The President's Brother-in-Law
Isaac Hite, Jr. was born 7 February 1758 at his father's estate, Long Meadows, Middletown, Frederick County in the Shenandoah Valley, VA....
Nov 1, 20215 min read
Cheddar Man
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...
Oct 25, 20219 min read
The Pioneer Aviatrix
Here is another notable relative connected through the Holmes branch. There are probably very few people in history who have so shrouded...
Oct 18, 20216 min read
The Great Emancipator
Here is a connection to another President. This one is through the Holmes line. Since everyone probably knows a lot about Abraham...
Oct 4, 20215 min read
"You Have Struck Me As With Roses"
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...
Sep 26, 20213 min read
The Holmes Branch
The Holmes branch of the family starts in Manchester, England. The surname was originally spelled Hulme and begins with Robert Hulme of...
Aug 23, 20214 min read
Go Ahead, Make My Day
Well, it turns out that there is another Hollywood tough guy hanging out in the branches of my Potter line. Clinton Eastwood, Jr. was...
Aug 16, 20217 min read
The Little Lady Who Wrote The Book That Made The Big War
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born 14 June 1811 in Litchfield, CT to the Reverend Lyman Beecher and Roxanna (nee Foote) Beecher, the...
Aug 8, 20215 min read
The Duke
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,...
Aug 2, 20218 min read
The Scottish Prisoner of War
Welcome to my 100th Post! As mentioned in the previous post "The Clann Donnachaidh," Daniel Robertson was the first of the Robbins...
Jul 26, 20214 min read
The Clann Donnachaidh
The first of the Robbins (Robins) line in America was Daniel Robinson. He was born in Blair-Athol, Pertshire, Scotland in 1627 to...
Jul 19, 20216 min read
A Difficult Tale To Tell
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...
Jul 12, 20216 min read
The Potters
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...
Jul 4, 20214 min read
The Tea Burners of Greenwich
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...
Jun 14, 20212 min read
The Gardiners and a Second DuBois Connection
Let me now introduce the Gardiners, another Quaker family who left England and settled in "West Jersey." In this line, there is also...
May 17, 20214 min read
The Weavers (Webers)
Johann Friederich "Frederick" Weaver (Weber) and his family arrived in Philadelphia from Rotterdam aboard the Two Brothers on or before...
May 10, 20211 min read
Mother's Day Pictorial Post
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,...
Apr 19, 20217 min read
A Tarnished Legacy
Most people will probably recognize this relative of mine. When one thinks of this 37th President of the United States, the first thing...
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