Category: Kansas
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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Welcome to a wrap-up/overview of the previous eight weeks! What interesting patterns do we see in each generation? Let’s compare them!
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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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The family of George and Polly Callin largely remained in Huron County, OH, when much of the family moved away from Milton Township. Their legacy was inspiring.
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We think of our institutions and building as permanent, but they have lifespans, too – sometimes as short as our own. Here’s one story of a building built by a Callin architect.
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In the second part of her 60-minute recording, Great-grandma Merle talked about living in Glendale (AZ) in 1907 and how deeply diseases like TB affected the family
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The first of two artifacts that came to my possession, recently. This 60-minute tape has a lot of memories from my great-grandmother, Merle (Huff) Witter.
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And other anniversaries Today’s date, April 23rd, turns up a lot in my research. I mean, sure, it happens every year, but sometimes I am overwhelmed by how often a specific date intrudes itself into whatever I happen to be reading on a given day. For example, I don’t know why I remember this, but…
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The family of Albert Crydler Huff (1854-1936) Albert C Huff1 (1854-1936) was the son of Lewis Huff and Catherine Stroud, born on 11 Apr 1854 in Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio. He grew up in Hancock County, but by 1875, his rather large family had moved nearly 800 miles southwest to Elsmore Township, Allen County, Kansas.…
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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 Shriver – Nancy Ellen “Ella” Shriver (1864 – 1936) Ella was my Grandma Nancy’s Grandma Nancy – put another way, Nancy (Shriver) Witter was my paternal grandmother’s…
Mightier Acorns 