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”
Category Archives: Miscellaneous Research
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”
Mauser Rifle Connection?
I feel like the thing that got me started in genealogy work was the question Grandpa Murl had – how are the Big Springs, NE Mausers related to Peter Paul and Wilhelm Mauser, the inventors of the Mauser rifle. When I started, I got stuck in how to research German records in addition to theContinue reading “Mauser Rifle Connection?”
DNA Matches May Help Solve A Mystery
I don’t know if anyone who follows this blog watches “Finding Your Roots” the PBS show with Henry Louis Gates, but I love watching how they use DNA evidence to help find branches of a family tree sometimes with what seemed to be impossible odds. I may have used some DNA evidence here recently toContinue reading “DNA Matches May Help Solve A Mystery”
DAR Updates and Motivation
Somehow the beginning of this year has been really busy. I have a lot of good intentions for genealogy work, and so far, not much progress. Not for a lack of projects to do that’s for sure. Sometimes it just takes an event of some sort to get things motivated again. I recently received noticeContinue reading “DAR Updates and Motivation”
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”
Nicole’s 4X Great Grand Parents Research Status
I can’t believe that I have completed documents for nearly every couple all the way back to my 4X Great Grandparents for those that are based in the United States. I haven’t done the math, but it’s a good number of couples and families. For those families that were outside of the United States theirContinue reading “Nicole’s 4X Great Grand Parents Research Status”
Cory and Nicole Family History 