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: Pottawattamie County, IA

Families that lived in the county and research done there.

  • Family Reunion: Martin

    A Quick Overview of my work under this surname You might recall from this earlier post: Merilyn (Martin) Rossiter (1923 – 1997) was the daughter of Howard William Martin (1897–1970) and Aletha Frederick Putnam (1899–1981), born on 17 Aug 1923 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. She married Arvid Wesley “Bud” Holmquist (1920–1996) in 1943 in…