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Baseball!

Sometimes family history is a bit random in what I’m looking at and why. For whatever reason, when I was at the library picking up books for our Christmas travels, I was browsing the non-fiction and saw a book on Mickey Mantle. I’ve never really been a huge baseball fan, but I knew that DadContinue reading “Baseball!”

Christmas Fun

It is almost Christmas, and it looks like this may be my final post for 2022. I have a backlog of things to share and hopefully I can get back to a regular schedule in 2023 and share all the new updates plus get some additional research completed and learn a few new things. AContinue reading “Christmas Fun”

Somehow time got away from me

I just realized that it has been about 6 weeks from the date of my last post. I don’t know how that much time went by. I haven’t dropped my research or dropped off the face of the earth, but somehow the last few weeks had other thinks that took up all of my time.Continue reading “Somehow time got away from me”

Williams and Owens Family in Wales

The research project on Cory’s ancestors in Wales has been received. So exciting! Research in Wales is tricky as it seems like there are just a few given names used and at points in history a patronymic surname system. In Wales this would have been Owen mab William, or Owen Son of William. Knowing thatContinue reading “Williams and Owens Family in Wales”

Adam(s) Family Breakthrough

I had a very exciting breakthrough last week just completely out of the blue. For a long time I’ve been a little stuck in Cory’s family tree tracing the lineage of Francis Adams Lobner. We knew her parents and that her father was from Germany, but William Adam(s) (it shows up both ways) was hardContinue reading “Adam(s) Family Breakthrough”

Media Conversions to Digital

I may have bitten off a BIG project with this one. Our local camera shop offered a special for every VHS tape brought in for conversion to digital. As it turned out, Cory was out west and our parents loaded the vehicle with VHS tapes. I think all said and done I had around 150Continue reading “Media Conversions to Digital”

Illinois Heritage Alliance Weekend

It’s so much fun to meet with other people who enjoy your hobbies. This weekend I participated for the first time in the Illinois Heritage Alliance weekend. This is a weekend gathering where several different lineage societies get together and while some of them do short business meetings, some just provide information on what theirContinue reading “Illinois Heritage Alliance Weekend”

Additional Civil War Soldiers

I decided to also get from the National Archives the pensions for two brothers of my direct line ancestors and have received both of them. One was for Andrew Clutter, brother of my 4X Great Grandfather George Clutter, who eventually ties into Blanche Pocock. Andrew was killed near Atlanta in the Civil War and IContinue reading “Additional Civil War Soldiers”

Ancestry DNA Updates

Every so often Ancestry.com updates their ethnicity estimates and it’s always interesting to see what the updates look like. I was pretty happy with my first estimate and thought it was pretty close to the paper trail as I knew it. Then there was an update when I had something like 5% German ethnicity, andContinue reading “Ancestry DNA Updates”

Current Updates

I’ve been trying to post on a somewhat regular basis with new finds, update biographies or other fun things and somehow an entire month got away from me. Partially life got busy with a lot of different things, and partially I am waiting on a few updates that are starting to trickle in. Right nowContinue reading “Current Updates”