Category: Ohio
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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The family of George and Polly Callin largely remained in Huron County, OH, when much of the family moved away from Milton Township. Their legacy was inspiring.
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Finding evidence is never a straightforward process; here’s an examination of a source that holds as many questions as answers.
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It’s one thing to read about a method; it’s another thing to plan it out and put it into practice. But here is how I hope to close in on my Revolutionary War ancestor!
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Now that we’ve covered those who left, let’s begin looking at those who stayed in Milton Township!
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A guided tour of the updates to Grandpa Bob’s WikiTree profile, with some of the stories that didn’t make it in.
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The past is foreign, and the people who lived there are complicated. We owe it to them and to ourselves to see them as clearly as possible, even through the murky filter of history.
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One last family in the Milton Township Diaspora series: The Fergusons. We know they were the last to leave by about ten years.
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We are often left with tenuous scraps and hints about the people in our family trees. Speculation can only take us a little way, but it can often be worth exploring.
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A major addition to the Callin Family History project stemmed from the thinnest of clues. Thanks to random strangers on the Internet, I was able to build those clues into a tree with hundreds more cousins.
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Married after the end of the Second World war, my maternal grandparents embarked on a lengthy 50-year journey. Here’s a taste of it!
Mightier Acorns 