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]
Author: TerryB
I have been researching mine and my husband’s families for many years, but really got into it after having some family members’ DNA tested and uploading our tree to Ancestry. I have found books written about some of my husband’s ancestors who have been in the US since at least 1634! We knew he had an ancestor who was in the War of 1812, but it turns out he is descended from a few Revolutionary War patriots as well. We also found out that even though we had always thought he was only Irish and English that he has German ancestors, which the DNA testing verified. My ancestors haven’t been here nearly as long, making researching my roots in Ireland and Italy a lot more difficult. But I love finding new cousins we didn’t know about and learning about our ancestors. I think it’s good for our kids to know where they came from and some of the cool things that their ancestors have done. Heck we found out that my kids are 4th cousins 6 times removed to Gideon Welles, Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy.
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]