Category: Farmers
Ancestors who were documented as Farmers.
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A simple system upgrade leads to a meditation on technological disruption, and consideration of ancestors who farmed, invented, and “improved” their way to our modern world.
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Grandma Merle finally gets around to meeting Grandpa Dick in the recording of her memories.
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How digging into the details of a census record took one ancestor from an orphan to part of a family of Baptist ministers in North Eastern Kentucky.
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A Tale of Harassments and Murder Note: this piece was originally published on Projectkin in Feb 2024 in their Member’s Corner. It is being re-published here with permission. Kentucky was not the safest place to live in 1862. Several Southern states seceded from the Union after Fort Sumter, but Governor Beriah Magoffin declared Kentucky to…
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Looking for the father of Abraham Witter (1786 – 1882) A few weeks ago, I published Family Reunion: Witter, which prompted a conversation about Abraham Witter (1786-1882) with my dad’s first cousin, Pat Witter. Pat had sources connecting Abraham to the family of Joseph Witter and Hannah Washburn; however, those sources proved that a different…
Mightier Acorns 