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: Lebanon County, PA

Families that lived in the county and research done there.

  • A Valentine for Indiana

    Discovering the Shuffler family, part II Last week, I left off after making a few basic assumptions: Benjamin Franklin Shuffler’s father was Valentine Shuffler, who appeared in the 1840 Census for Marshall County, Indiana. Sarah A. Bailey, who swore an affidavit stating Valentine’s widow was Margaret Shuffler, was Benjamin’s sister. Based on the 1840 census,…