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: Baltimore County, MD

  • Uncle Norman's Missing Family

    A lifetime in Baltimore without finding my cousins My grandfather, Bob Callin, had two older siblings. Bob was the baby, born in 1920; Yvonne, the oldest of the three, was born in 1907, and Norman was born in 1912. John Norman Callin graduated from Fostoria High School in Ohio in 1930 and then moved to…

  • Method v. Madness

    I am an ongoing study in contradictions My third child struggled through elementary school. He had a lot of difficulty dealing with the daily onslaught of confusing social interactions with teachers and other students. He would get overwhelmed and angry, then shut down, verbally. He wouldn’t speak, but he found ways to show us how…

  • Family Reunion: Hale(s)

    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 Hale: Alice A Hale (16 Apr 1865 – 24 May 1942) Alice was the maternal grandmother of my grandpa Bob Callin. Alice’s first husband, Allen Greenlee, was…