Mightier Acorns

Journeys through Genealogy and Family History

A parody of a family coat of arms designed with acorns as elements, with the motto "ex gladnis potentioribus" Latin for "from Mighty Acorns"
From Mighty Acorns

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Tad Callin has been working on family history and genealogy since the late 1990s. He does most of his research on Ancestry and posts what he learns to WikiTree.

Category: Erie County, OH

  • Ahnentafel #33: Amanda Lydia Walker (1856-1933)

    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.

  • No Fit Ending

    No Fit Ending

    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…