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: Hudson County, NJ

Families that lived in the county and research done there.

  • 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…

  • Wavetops: James Palmer (1814-1904)

    Surveying the surface of an ancestral ocean Last week, I wrapped up the last of the “Family Reunion” series, which gave a (sometimes) brief overview of who each of my sixteen great-great-grandparents was. That was useful because it forced me to revisit each of those families, confirm my connection to them using documentary evidence, and…