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"
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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: Mills County, IA

  • Raising the Rupes

    Raising the Rupes

    We learned some tragic details in The Ballad of Mrs. Steele, but there are hints of other tragedies in her parents stories. Today we look at her mother’s life and the people in it, hoping to figure out some answers.

  • Family Reunion: Ballard

    Going four generations back to find another line This surname can be found among my wife’s Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find our first Ballard, the paternal grandmother of my wife’s paternal grandmother, June (Shuffler) McCullough: Virginia “Virgie” Ballard – 01 Feb 1889 – 04 Nov 1977 You might remember…

  • The Ballad of Mrs. Steele

    Pacific Junction, Iowa, was a railroad town. Three railroads converged in Mills County, about 25 miles south of Omaha, Nebraska. The western terminus of the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad and the eastern terminus of the Nebraska Burlington & Missouri Railroad met at a station on the Kansas City, Council Bluffs, & Saint Joseph Railroad…

  • Family Reunion: Shuffler

    A Quick Overview of my work under this surname Grandma June (Shuffler) McCullough was my wife’s paternal grandmother – her mother was Esther Thompson, whose lineage of Scandinavian immigrants is sketched out in our 15 November post. June’s paternal line, the Shufflers, were a part of the American Midwest. I owe them a lot more…