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: Marshall County, IN

Families that lived in the county and research done there.

  • A Valentine for Indiana

    Discovering the Shuffler family, part II Last week, I left off after making a few basic assumptions: But I still didn’t have any direct evidence that put Benjamin in Valentine’s household. I kept digging, thinking this would all be easily resolved as soon as I found one key piece of evidence. I found record after…

  • A Valentine for Iowa

    Discovering the origins of Valentine Shuffler (1853-1916) Writing an accurate history means leaving out assumptions. Sticking only to facts and evidence, and refraining from speculation about things that we cannot know, such as personal motivations or attitudes of the people involved. But writing a complete history means adding a human element to the facts—putting what…

  • Records Don't Tell the Stories

    They only point the way… the rest is up to us If you were a fly on the wall… or if I set up a Twitch stream… the scene that would play out in front of you might disrupt your image of the studious researcher. I know I like to think of myself as a…