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

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Tad Callin has been working on family history and genealogy since the late 1990s. He does most of his research on Ancestry and posts what he learns to WikiTree.

Category: Monterey County, CA

Families that lived in the county and research done there.

  • Piggies: A Preview

    Chapter 10 from “Tad’s Happy Funtime” Thirty years ago, I was a Korean student at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. I met the love of my life, proposed to her (on Valentine’s Day!) and married her (on St. Patrick’s Day!), and started our family. Ten years ago, I published my book, “Tad’s Happy…

  • Maintaining a Pattern

    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: They all married young The grooms (and one bride) were all in the service Not only did all six of…