Category: Ohio
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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Even when the destination is clear, the journey might be difficult. In this case, the destination is not clear, and may not exist yet… or may only exist in the past.
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Picking up where our story of John H. Callin left off, his wife, Amanda Walker, saw the world change drastically between her girlhood in the 1880s and her death during the Great Depression.
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The biography of John H. Callin has layers that shift in meaning, depending on how deeply you examine the records and artifacts he left behind.
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His sons and grandchildren remembered him for us, but we have to read between the lines to find out the arc of his story.
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Welcome to a wrap-up/overview of the previous eight weeks! What interesting patterns do we see in each generation? Let’s compare them!
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Sometimes progress feels like a step backward. But it is still a step in the right direction.
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History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. And so did my ancestor, whose frustration with the outcome of the Civil War was captured in his poetry.
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The evidence we have suggests hard times and heavy years, but that’s the problem with not having a lot of evidence.
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Of my great-grandparents, David Clark’s biography leaves me with more questions than I can expect to answer. Maybe that’s okay.
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Another installment of the Callin families who stayed in Milton Township, Ohio, after the first generation of settlers (James and John) died.
