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: Wood County, OH

Families that lived in the county and research done there.

  • The Berlin Family Mystery

    New questions in an ongoing puzzle I recently contacted the Allen County Public Library genealogy department with some questions. According to WorldCat, they hold the only copies1 of The Berlin Family, compiled by Reginald L. Berlin and Terry Johnson-Cooney and published by Roy Rushka. There are five volumes, and it looks like my Berlin family…

  • Remembering the Maine

    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…

  • Family Reunion: Hale(s)

    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…

  • Silk or Satin

    originally posted Friday, November 7, 2014 Note for fellow researchers: I’m still trying to find evidence that will confirm the parents of Elizabeth (Berlin) Callin – that WikiTree link presents the few documents we have. Here is the fullest version I have of the memoir written by her granddaughter, Rosemary Callin. (I am working on…

  • Family Reunion: Walker

    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…