Category: Historical Events
Ancestors who were part of major historical events.
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Another installment of the Callin families who stayed in Milton Township, Ohio, after the first generation of settlers (James and John) died.
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Great-Grandma Merle was one of the last two people on this Ahnentafel journey who I actually met. And since I’ve written about her story before, I’ll try to capture some of my memories of what she was like.
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I didn’t think I had much to add to his story, but there always seems to be more to say if you just dig down a little bit.
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Making assumptions and generalizations about who “belongs” is a mistake as old as America itself. Our own history shows that arguments warning of seemingly permanent, intolerable differences between groups of people should not be treated with the weight that people give them.
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Last week, our Ahnentafel reached its first milestone as we talked about the last of my childrens’ Great Eight. Here’s a summary of facts about that Generation.
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Even those who remained don’t seem to have stayed put for long. A generation after Ann and Henry Campbell, their Campbell descendants were scattered far to the south and west of Ohio.
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Some relatives are so infamous within a family, that their story is unignorable. And yet, because they were unforgivable, you can’t ask about the details.
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If you have an image in your head of the Midwest grandmother, she probably looks a lot like Grandma June.
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A challenging part of the tree: writing about people I didn’t know, but who living people DID know. Doing the job properly without being annoying – that’s the challenge!
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What we know is not always the truth, but what we remember can be, if we are careful about the way we tell the story. Minds and memories are tricky things.
Mightier Acorns 