Category: Ohio
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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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!
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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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An update on where we are with the Berlin family – tidying my ancestors and leaving clues for one or two other families.
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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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Sometimes finding new information can make you question what you thought you knew. Sometimes that is beneficial and necessary… but it can also feel like a setback.
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Finding and evaluating published family histories is a vital part of tying your research to that of your predecessors.
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Using secondary sources, like the local histories published in the late 1800s and early 1900s, can be a mixed blessing. It depends how much the anonymous authors enjoyed puffing up their subjects!
Mightier Acorns 