Sorry loyal viewers, there isn’t a new genealogy blog post this week. I’ve been busy with my other passion, vegetable gardening. Hopefully I can get another genealogy post done for… [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.
A while back I wrote about the Belsanti family. Maria Rosaria Belsanti married Gervasio DiPaolo. I don’t really know much about his side of the family other than what I… [Continue Reading]
My husband’s grandmother’s brother Vincent Doran was an interesting person to research. I don’t know if my father-in-law or his siblings ever knew their uncle had been married and had… [Continue Reading]
This is the part of my Irish side that I have the most people in the tree. The tree can be seen here https://myfamgen.com/hagneyheagney-family/. Several years ago a man named… [Continue Reading]
Since the Lawder family lived in England before coming to the US, we had always thought that they were English, but it turns out that they were Irish Catholics. Edward… [Continue Reading]
Arturo Marco Domenico Vespignani was born in Modigliana in northern Italy in October 1864. He eventually moved to Palazzo San Gervasio in southern Italy where he met and married his… [Continue Reading]
Until I started really getting into genealogy research, we had always thought that my husband was only Irish and English. Then I discovered that he had German ancestors which was… [Continue Reading]
So as I mentioned in this week’s Bonus Blog, having close DNA matches and not being able to figure out the connection is very frustrating. Of the seven closest Ancestry… [Continue Reading]
I thought I’d throw in an extra Bonus Blog post this week, since last Friday’s was a bit of a downer. We have had my mom’s, mine, my brother’s, my… [Continue Reading]
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the Blizard family. Richard Blizard was married to Catherine Finch. Catherine was the daughter of James Finch Jr and Sarah Tooker…. [Continue Reading]