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: Lorain County, OH

Families that lived in the county and research done there.

  • 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.

  • Richard Zimmerman: World War II Sailor

    When our identity is taboo, it is too easy to be erased from history Note: much of this post is adapted from “You Just Can’t Matcham,” posted on my old Mightier Acorns blog on November 11, 2016. If you are interested in this family, I included a lot more information about George and Emma’s children…