Category: Occupations
Ancestors who were documented with a specific occupation.
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We think of our institutions and building as permanent, but they have lifespans, too – sometimes as short as our own. Here’s one story of a building built by a Callin architect.
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In the second part of her 60-minute recording, Great-grandma Merle talked about living in Glendale (AZ) in 1907 and how deeply diseases like TB affected the family
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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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Unearthing things people wanted buried Jessie Callin was the youngest of four children born to James Monroe Callin (1844–1901) and Rosalina Bedora Davenport (1848–1876). She was born in March of 1876, so she was only a few months old when her mother died on 20 September. Her father was the brother of John H. Callin…
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And how did he know it? George William Callin (1846-1921) was one of us: a genealogist. He was active during a time when Americans enjoyed a newfound sense of optimism and possibility about their place in the world and when average men, like those in his family, were documenting their own lives as if they…
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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…
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The Milton Township Diaspora (part 3) When we last talked about Sarah (Montgomery) Davidson and her family, they set out from Fulton County, Indiana, and took to the Oregon Trail in 1852: Sarah and Henry Davidson took their four children and their adopted niece, Sarah Farrell, on the trip; we have only talked about Sarah…
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Thinking about Hermeneutics in genealogy Stop and think before you read on: Did you answer the title question based on what you think “godly” means, or did you answer based on what your ancestors thought “godly” meant? Once you’ve fixed your answer in your mind, read on! The question in the title isn’t really about…
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Dr. Carolyn Elizabeth Putnam (1857-1917) Carolyn Elizabeth “Carrie” Putnam was the daughter of George C Putnam (1835-1873) and Elizabeth Ann Force (1836-1918), born in Jan 1857. She grew up in Rochester, Monroe County, New York, until her father moved the family to Brownstown, Wayne County, Michigan, to start a new business around 1870. George died…
Mightier Acorns 