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"
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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.
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Her Sixteen

Early on, I found a useful research approach in “My Sixteen: A Self-help Guide to Finding Your Sixteen Great-great Grandparents” by Robert W. Marlin. The goal of tracing and documenting all 16 of my great-grandparents gave my research some focus and scope. And I have found that it is easier for cousins and fellow researchers to find you if you talk about more surnames than your own.

This page lists my wife’s Sixteen 2nd-great-grandparents, so if you share common ancestry with one of them, you’re her distant cousin! They appear in Ahentafel order, 16-31, assuming that my wife or her brother are “1”:

  1. John Riley McCullough (1848-1916) – link to posts tagged “McCullough” on Mightier Acorns
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  2. Alice Frances Jones (1857-1921) – posts tagged “Jones“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  3. Bernard Blom (1861-1917) – posts tagged “Blom“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  4. Ida Slight (1863-1919) – posts tagged “Slight“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  5. Franklin Benjamin Shuffler (1888-1919) – posts tagged “Shuffler“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  6. Virginia Ballard (1889-1977) – posts tagged “Ballard“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  7. Thomas Christian Thomsen (1876-1951) – posts tagged “Thomsen” or “Thompson“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  8. Lena Marie Dagmar Jensen (1874-1952) – posts tagged “Jensen“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  9. Anders Holmquist (1846-1916) – posts tagged “Holmquist“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  10. Elna Mårtensson (1846-1915) – posts tagged “Mårtensson“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  11. Gustav Hugo Waldemar Leander (b. 1863) – posts tagged “Leander“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  12. Ingeborg Olesdatter Swedahl (1858-1934) – posts tagged “Swedahl“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  13. William Findley Martin (1874-1943) – posts tagged “Martin“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  14. Harriet Jenevereth Shepard (1874-1923) – posts tagged “Shepard“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  15. Charles Walter Putnam (1859-1922) – posts tagged “Putnam“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile
  16. Daisy Deane Frederick (1870-1964) – posts tagged “Frederick“
    Ancestry link – FamilySearch – WikiTree profile

Say hello, cousin!