Category: New Jersey
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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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…
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Teasing meaning from the absence of evidence (part 3) Previously, in Still Finding James Callin, we looked at the Revolutionary War muster rolls, examining whatever they could tell us about him, and we talked about how they loosely support the statements made in George W. Callin’s 1911 Callin Family History. James, last noted in the…
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originally posted Sunday, July 23, 2017 Note: I composed this post before I discovered WikiTree, so you might find information here that I haven’t posted there, yet. At this writing, Henry B Opp (1811 – 1884) is as far back as WikiTree has documented this family. Things Are Looking Opp The Opp families that lived…
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Step Two on the Ladder to Providence Last week we took a close look at the records that provide supporting evidence for what we know about my maternal great-grandfather. This week, we will review the evidence for his mother: Florence Mabel Hart married John Jackson Tuttle on 28 May 1891 in Succasunna, Morris, New Jersey.…
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Step One, in which our heroes begin their journey Nearly nine years ago, I spent a small amount of time exploring my maternal grandmother’s side of the family, and I fell into a rabbit hole. What I found led to an ancestor who settled in Providence, Rhode Island, and founded the First Baptist Church there…
Mightier Acorns 