Category: Ohio
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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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!
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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…
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How our origin story shapes our future A couple of weeks ago, David Shaw of Serengenity made a salient comment (emphasis added) on my post about great-great uncle George’s 1911 Callin Family History: In that time period Genealogy was quite a fad, consequently many are badly written and poorly sourced. Their resources at the time…
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And how did he know it? George William Callin (1846-1921) was one of us: a genealogist. He was active during a time when Americans enjoyed a newfound sense of optimism and possibility about their place in the world and when average men, like those in his family, were documenting their own lives as if they…
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The Milton Township Diaspora (part 2) Sarah Montgomery was born in Milton Township, Richland County, Ohio, on 27 December 1824 and married Henry Davidson (1818–1894) in Fulton County, Indiana, on 22 Apr 1841. They took their family—including their adopted niece, Sarah Ferrell—on the Oregon Trail in 1853. In my last post about this family, I…
Mightier Acorns 