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: King County, WA

  • Ahnentafel #29: Hildur Agda Leander (1886-1945)

    Ahnentafel #29: Hildur Agda Leander (1886-1945)

    “What’s an ‘Ahnentafel’?” you ask – read this introductory post for my explanation. Hildur Leander was the second of six children born to Gustaf Hugo Waldemar Leander and Ingeborg Olesdatter (or Swedahl) in Brooklyn, New York. Her father, Gust, had immigrated from Sweden in 1882, when he was 18. Ingeborg’s family was from Norway, and…

  • Ahnentafel #28: Arvid William Holmquist (1880-1962)

    Ahnentafel #28: Arvid William Holmquist (1880-1962)

    Welcome to the biography of our Ahnentafel’s first American Immigrant! Arvid William Holmquist, born in Sweden in 1880.

  • How the Headlines Got It Wrong

    Then, as now, the media told the story they wanted to sell “If it bleeds, it leads.” Newspapers are a valuable resource for family history research. I frequently incorporate newspaper articles (often obituaries) into my WikiTree profiles. Newspapers helped me tell the story of when Martin Callin was killed in 1889: However, newspapers were never…