Category: New York
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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Going four generations back to find another line This surname can be found among my wife’s Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find the first Shepard – Harriet Jenevereth Shepard – 18 Dec 1874 – 17 Jan 1923 Hattie was the paternal grandmother of my wife’s maternal grandmother, Merilyn (Martin) Holmquist…
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posted Friday, October 28, 2016 Note: if you care to revisit the original version of this post from 2016, you will note a few major changes: If you happen to be one of Prof’s Progeny, drop me a note, or leave a comment! Prof’s Progeny In our earlier post, 20th Century Callin Clan, we recounted…
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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 Hart in my tree. We start with: Florence Mabel Hart – 02 Nov 1874 – 03 May 1945 Florence was the paternal grandmother of my maternal grandmother,…
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Teasing meaning from the absence of evidence (part 2) Last week, we were Still Finding James Callin – laying out records that may confirm that he was a Continental soldier in the Revolutionary War. We lack firm proof that the records show the same James Callin recorded in the Callin Family History in 1911, but…
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It doesn’t take much to make a connection Our story, so far: We began climbing our ladder to Providence with my great-grandfather, Alfred Tuttle. Our goal was to examine the available evidence connecting each generation of his ancestry back to the founding of Providence Plantations, Rhode Island. Greene Whitford (1759-c. 1816) was the son of…
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posted Friday, October 21, 2016 Note: I wrote this post near the beginning of my Callin Family History project, and I have done a bit of copy editing and added WikiTree links for key individuals – I’ll put my usual reminders to subscribe and comment up front here: A Few Words About the Walkers After…
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Taking stock of the journey so far We have been climbing a ladder of evidence for a couple of months now – a metaphorical ladder leaning against the side of one of my “family palm trees”. The first several rungs felt like very solid footing, but the last three have been increasingly shaky. Depending on…
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A lifeline to Providence Genealogists urge each other to talk to their oldest living relatives and record their memories as best they can. This is difficult for a lot of people to do – the researchers might be unsure of themselves, or their relationship with their relatives might not make interviewing them in their old…
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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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We have some shaky footing on this ladder Last week, we considered the evidence that ties Thomas Wells and Cyrena Whitford to Harlow C. Wells. I decided to accept that Harlow was probably their son, based on the few facts we have been able to find in the available records. I also spent some time…
Mightier Acorns 