Mightier Acorns

Journeys through Genealogy and Family History

A parody of a family coat of arms designed with acorns as elements, with the motto "ex gladnis potentioribus" Latin for "from Mighty Acorns"
From Mighty Acorns

Category: Maricopa County, AZ

Families that lived in the county and research done there.

  • Ahnentafel #9: Nancy Witter (1925-2004)

    I’m still early in my Ahnentafel series, but I can already see how easy it is to lose the stories of the women in our family trees. It’s harder to document the way someone loved those around them, the acts of service, the everyday interaction. And documents favor the histories of men. So while I…

  • Ahnentafel #8: Bob Callin (1920-2007)

    A guided tour of the updates to Grandpa Bob’s WikiTree profile, with some of the stories that didn’t make it in.

  • Grandma Merle’s Travelogue: Farming and Motherhood

    The last of four installments where we read the transcript of Grandma Merle’s Travelogue!

  • Grandma Merle’s Travelogue: Back to Arizona (1913)

    Grandma Merle finally gets around to meeting Grandpa Dick in the recording of her memories.

  • Grandma Merle’s Travelogue: Glendale, Arizona, in 1907

    In the second part of her 60-minute recording, Great-grandma Merle talked about living in Glendale (AZ) in 1907 and how deeply diseases like TB affected the family

  • Great-Grandma Merle’s Travelogue

    The first of two artifacts that came to my possession, recently. This 60-minute tape has a lot of memories from my great-grandmother, Merle (Huff) Witter.

  • Kicking the Tires

    Let’s see what this WordPress jalopy can do! As promised, I’m back from a brief summer hiatus. Kate and I took a road trip to Baltimore to visit the kids, and grab some pie at Perkins, and now we’re ready to settle back into our regularly scheduled programming. I haven’t exactly been idle on the…

  • The family of Albert Crydler Huff (1854-1936) Albert C Huff1 (1854-1936) was the son of Lewis Huff and Catherine Stroud, born on 11 Apr 1854 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio. He grew up in Hancock County, but by 1875, his rather large family had moved nearly 800 miles southwest to Elsmore Township, Allen County, Kansas.…

  • More of Aunt Vicki’s legacy We lost my Aunt Vicki this summer. But before she left, Vicki spent her time on countless thoughtful projects that will continue to remind us what was most important to her. Her son, Jeff, was the first of my generation of cousins, and for Christmas of 2021, Vicki assembled 50…

  • A celebration of a wedding trend I’m at a special wedding this week – so I’m re-purposing an old post about weddings in my family. Here are three couples with a few things in common: How young were they? Well, that’s the basis for our trivia question – “Which of these brides was the youngest…