So it’s that time of year when I get really busy with my vegetable garden, so I won’t be posting to my genealogy blog again until the fall. Here’s a… [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 I am in the process of planning our genealogy vacation for later this year. We plan, if my husband’s work schedule allows, to head up into New York state… [Continue Reading]
My husband’s great-grandmother Anna Kelly and most of her sisters all had long lives. Anna lived to be 88. Her sister Mary lived to be 83, Katherine 95, Margaret 93,… [Continue Reading]
There is a 2 volume book set, Genealogy of the Cowles Families in America, written about the Cowles family. I own a copy of the books. According to the books… [Continue Reading]
So a while back I wrote about the Murtha family and some DNA connections. I still haven’t heard from the person who does the family research in John Murtha’s family… [Continue Reading]
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about Barnet Bond. Barnet’s first wife was Lovina Miller. I didn’t know much about her family until I found a newspaper… [Continue Reading]
One set of my husband’s 2 times great-grandparents were Timothy Foley and Ellen Emperor. My husband’s uncle who had done research into the family had her name listed as Eleanor,… [Continue Reading]
Barnet Bond(born 1786-died 1862), my husband’s 3 times great-grandfather, is the oldest person on the Bond line that we are certain of. We believe his father’s name was William and… [Continue Reading]
So there is a DNA match on Ancestry who is a 4th to 6th cousin to my mother (22.9 centimorgans shared across 2 DNA segments) 4th to 6th cousin to… [Continue Reading]
My husband is descended from 4 people who were in the Revolutionary War. One on his father’s side of the family, Peter Doxtater, who I wrote about a few weeks… [Continue Reading]