Category: Occupations
Ancestors who were documented with a specific occupation.
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John H. Callin, a Union artillery soldier, left behind a book of poems “written in the Army” when he died in 1913. One hundred years later, his words were transcribed and published online for the world to see!
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Finding Samuel’s occupation led me to realize that the online trees had him mis-identified. How studying the original documents brought me closer to finding his correct ancestry.
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Grandma Merle finally gets around to meeting Grandpa Dick in the recording of her memories.
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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…
Mightier Acorns 