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: England

Ancestors who originated in the country, or posts about resources for finding ancestors there.

  • Tell Us About the Girl From New York City

    Most of her story remains underground The Opp family is my mother’s maternal grandmother’s maternal side—and if that doesn’t emphasize “maternal” enough, I think of them as being on the Opp-osite side of the tree from my Callin family. (Opening with a Dad joke of that magnitude should rebalance things, don’t you think?) I’ve tried…

  • Family Reunion: Bellamy

    Going four generations back to find another line This surname can be found among my Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find the first Bellamy – my maternal grandfather’s paternal grandmother: Sarah Jane Bellamy (17 Dec 1836 – 22 May 1920) Sarah is named in The Bellamys of Early Virginia, by…