Category: Ohio
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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Going four generations back to find another line This surname can be found among my Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find the first May: Mary Frances May – 30 Oct 1858 – 19 Mar 1882 Mary (May) Reynolds was the maternal grandmother of my maternal grandfather, Russ Clark. Her parents…
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Teasing meaning from the absence of evidence (part 3) Previously, in Still Finding James Callin, we looked at the Revolutionary War muster rolls, examining whatever they could tell us about him, and we talked about how they loosely support the statements made in George W. Callin’s 1911 Callin Family History. James, last noted in the…
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Going four generations back to find another line This surname can be found among my Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find the first Shriver – Nancy Ellen “Ella” Shriver (1864 – 1936) Ella was my Grandma Nancy’s Grandma Nancy – put another way, Nancy (Shriver) Witter was my paternal grandmother’s…
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originally posted on Friday, February 6, 2015 The U.S. Memorial Day holiday falls on Monday, so I thought it appropriate to re-post this look at one of the sadder stories from the Callin Family History. If you think of yourself as someone who “supports the troops,” I would ask you to channel some of that…
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Going four generations back to find another line This surname can be found among my Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find the first Hale: Alice A Hale (16 Apr 1865 – 24 May 1942) Alice was the maternal grandmother of my grandpa Bob Callin. Alice’s first husband, Allen Greenlee, was…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname This surname can be found among my Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find my first Murray – Rosa Edith Murray (23 Apr 1861 – 19 Nov 1943) My great-great-grandmother was a Murray, and her grandfather was a Scottish immigrant who came…
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The short, tragic life of Paul Olin “Pretty” Callin Paul Olin Callin (1902 – 1930) was the youngest of three siblings: he had an older sister, Ruth, and a brother, Martin. They grew up in Ashland, Ohio, where their father worked as a blacksmith. Delbert Dean Callin (1863-1934) was a descendant of my 5th-great grandfather, James…
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posted Friday, October 21, 2016 Note: I wrote this post near the beginning of my Callin Family History project, and I have done a bit of copy editing and added WikiTree links for key individuals – I’ll put my usual reminders to subscribe and comment up front here: A Few Words About the Walkers After…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname When I was new to genealogy, I did what a lot of people do: I uncritically relied on the work of others. A lot of what I know about the Huff family came to me via the late Max Huff. Unfortunately for me, by the time…
Mightier Acorns 