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Phillips Research Updates

One of the pieces of the tree I’ve been working on here and there over time is the connection between Jacob/Jasper Phillips – my 3X Great Grandfather and the grandfather of my Great-Grandmother Marjorie Bayne Munter – and his presumed parents. A cousin put together a book on the Phillips family many years ago andContinue reading “Phillips Research Updates”

DNA Project for Fanny Petty Hagerdon – Success

I just posted not too long ago about the search for Fanny Petty Hagerdon’s parents and my attempt to use DNA to solve this mystery. I was pretty much immersed in this project for a couple of days, mapping out DNA matches and trying to connect all of them to the family tree. It wasContinue reading “DNA Project for Fanny Petty Hagerdon – Success”

DNA Research Project Moving Forward

I have been working on a DNA matching project for Fanny (Petty or Perry) Hagerdon who was the wife of Luther Hagerdon. Fannie left very few paper records as she was born in 1811 and died in 1846. I’ve been working through a series of DNA Matches to see if I can shine any lightContinue reading “DNA Research Project Moving Forward”

USD 1812 Annual Meeting

A couple of weeks ago I attended my first annual meeting for the Daughters of the War of 1812. What a fantastic group of ladies. As of right now, I have one proven 1812 veteran, another application pending processing and then I have two ancestors who we will have to use some indirect evidence toContinue reading “USD 1812 Annual Meeting”

RootsTech 2024

This is a fun weekend! The FamilySearch.org organization hosts a big conference in Salt Lake City, UT that consists of four days of Genealogy presentations. One day maybe I’ll be able to make it in person! Several of the presentations are archived online, or are available live online, and even without going in person, IContinue reading “RootsTech 2024”

The Things we Save

Over Christmas I gathered a few things from my grandparents safe (with permission of course), and as we went through the contents it is just so interesting what people choose to save throughout time. In the safe there were cancelled checked going back to the 1960’s, a fair bit of random paperwork that I’m notContinue reading “The Things we Save”

You never know what Grandma might say!

Well, there are a lot of reasons why we never know what Grandma might say, but Grandma Avis threw all of us for a surprise over Christmas this year. We are taking her home after the festivities and randomly she shares that she and her sister Iris made bombs during WWII for about 6 weeks. ItContinue reading “You never know what Grandma might say!”

2023 Wrapup

My postings have been a bit slower the last few months and that’s related to a few different things, but partially because most of the next biographies I would post require more research. It’s also partially related to time avaialable and that’s been hard to find the last few months. I have a couple of projectsContinue reading “2023 Wrapup”

Century Farm Awards

We had an exciting moment in August at the Deuel County Fair. All the paperwork was filled out with Aksarben, and the Mauser family was awarded the Pioneer Farm Family. That means that a member of the family has lived on the same property for 100 years (or more). In this case we were ableContinue reading “Century Farm Awards”

Octoberfest Genealogy Volunteer

This last weekend was a busy one. Part of the weekend was at the IL Heritage Alliance genealogy conference. Lots of learning on different lineage societies and some fabulous speakers. A couple of them with some great stories about perseverance and how that finally breaks down some brick walls in the tree. Some inspring things!Continue reading “Octoberfest Genealogy Volunteer”