As I mentioned in my last blog post I was contacted via Ancestry by another 3rd cousin of my mother-in-law’s. This person is descended from a sister of Emma Burke…. [Continue Reading]
So one of the main reasons for starting to write these blog posts, besides sharing what I have found with family members, was the hope that distant cousins out there… [Continue Reading]
In the last blog post I talked about the cemeteries that we visited in Oswego, New York. While we were in Oswego, we also drove around the city to find… [Continue Reading]
Oswego, New York is where the Bond family moved to when they left Kingsbury, NY. It’s also where the Doran/Kelly family lived. While visiting there we visited two cemeteries, Riverside… [Continue Reading]
Another stop on our genealogy vacation was Kingsbury, New York. This is where the Bond family lived before they moved to Oswego. This is also where Barnet Bond’s wife Lovina… [Continue Reading]
Being as today is election day I thought I’d throw in an extra bonus blog about a politician in my husband’s family. Orzo Martin Bond was my husband’s great-great-grandfather. In… [Continue Reading]
My last blog post was about the long trek to Adams taken by the Doxtater family. The Cooper family also settled in Adams originally being from Connecticut and then Durham,… [Continue Reading]
A while back I wrote about the Long Trek to Adams taken by Peter Doxtater and his family, https://myfamgen.com/2017/08/18/the-long-trek-to-adams/. Peter was my husband’s 5 times great-grandfather. From the booklet Revolutionary… [Continue Reading]
So every once in a while Ancestry sends out an e-mail about possible hints for people in my online family tree. I got one a while back which pointed me… [Continue Reading]
In a previous blog post “New DNA Connection Info” I mentioned how through Ancestry DNA I had connected with a 3rd cousin I didn’t know about. We ended up becoming… [Continue Reading]