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: Essex County, NJ

Families that lived in the county and research done there.

  • Ahnentafel #23: Edna Lyle Frey (1895-1985)

    Ahnentafel #23: Edna Lyle Frey (1895-1985)

    Sometimes the memories we have don’t carry the history of the people that made them. I got to meet the youngest of my Great-Grandparents before she died, but it would be years before I learned her story.

  • Ahnentafel #22: Alfred James Tuttle (1892-1973)

    Ahnentafel #22: Alfred James Tuttle (1892-1973)

    Alfred was a friendly, funny man, according to the impressions I inherited. But he is also an entry point into a deeper vein of history.

  • The Three Acts of James Henry Opp

    Some stories hide behind the records Born on 11 March 1870, James Henry Opp grew up in the small town of Dansville in Livingston County, New York. His father, Jacob Edward Opp, was a veteran of the Civil War, and his mother was Mary Elizabeth Palmer, descended from a family of New Jersey shipbuilders. Jacob…

  • Tell Us About the Girl From New York City

    Most of her story remains underground The Opp family is my mother’s maternal grandmother’s maternal side—and if that doesn’t emphasize “maternal” enough, I think of them as being on the Opp-osite side of the tree from my Callin family. (Opening with a Dad joke of that magnitude should rebalance things, don’t you think?) I’ve tried…