Category: Ohio
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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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!
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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.
Mightier Acorns 