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Celtic Origins
Posted on September 1, 2025 Leave a Comment
Apologies to my faithful readers. I took a break after the death of my best genealogy friend, Jean to process what her life and loss means to me. I have found that I cannot be creative on demand, and must wait for inspiration and the imperative juices to flow. Sometimes all that it takes is […]
LONDON Day Two, Part One: Temple
Posted on June 1, 2025 Leave a Comment
Temple: from the Latin templum meaning an ‘open or consecrated space’. I had an itinerary and a plan, but that was based on traveling with someone who had not been to London before. Upon getting back last night and finding my feet and back complaining more loudly than expected I decided to revamp my plans […]
Fleshing out the Story: Context Matters
Posted on January 26, 2025 1 Comment
How do we go from avid genealogist to storyteller? How do we bring a single ancestor back to life? How do we take a set of facts, essential the bones of our ancestors life, and tell their story as a three dimensional ancestor that you want others to know more about? Research of course! There’s […]
TILDEN’s of Kent, England
Posted on January 2, 2025 5 Comments
In my last blog post Traveling for Genealogy I chronicled my research into the TILDEN family of Benenden, Kent. I decided to do a deeper dive and as usual found some interesting connections. One of the places we are to stay and visit is Leeds Castle. So let’s dive in to a bit of ancient […]
TRAVELING for GENEALOGY: Virtual & In Person
Posted on December 8, 2024 7 Comments
There are many types of travel and just as many of interest to Genealogists. For the purposes of this blog post I am concentrating on travel to the homeland of an ancestor or ancestors for the purpose of experiencing something of their time upon this earth. Remember our principal reason to do genealogy, besides the […]
NEWSPAPER RESOURCES FOR GENEALOGISTS
Posted on December 7, 2024 4 Comments
Note: this will also be posted as a static Page under the RESOURCES TAB to make it easy to find. If you haven’t availed yourself of Newspapers to fill in tidbits of you ancestors lives you could be in for a real treat. Everything from recitals to accidents to winning prizes in the County Fair. […]
AMERICAN MILITARY RESOURCES for Genealogists
Posted on November 2, 2024 1 Comment
Please note that much of this information was put together by Veronica Walsh-Uribina for a class I host. I have added books and videos and commentary. Thank you Veronica for giving me permission to post along with some notes and resources of my own. COLLECTING POSSIBILITIES I like to start with this chart from Ancestry […]
The Journey of one 4000 Year old Celtic Y-SNP FGC22501: Ten Years of Discovery
Posted on May 22, 2024 Leave a Comment
Background To recap my first dive into Genetic Genealogy was giving my husband a Family Tree DNA Y37 kit for Valentine’s Day in 2011. It was purely out of frustration, as traditional genealogy had failed to connect him with either Thomas WHEADON (later WHEATON) of Branford, Connecticut or Robert WHEATON of Salem and Rehoboth, Massachusetts. […]
Write What You Know: Research What You Don’t & Beware of Artificial Intelligence Generated Answers.
Posted on February 15, 2024 5 Comments
If you are a follower you know I encourage you to turn your family trees into stories. But sometimes it is hard to know how to do that. Well you start with what you know about an ancestor or family. That is where tools like Family Group Sheets, Individual Research Checklists and Timelines come in […]
German Immigrants to North Carolina: Pioneer Georg “Frederick” MOSER (1722-1800) Part Two
Posted on January 29, 2024 Leave a Comment
TROUBLE IN ORANGE COUNTY While we read in the last post that settlers were lured to North Carolina with advertisements of inexpensive land and no taxes, the speculators had other ideas. The settlers came, cleared the land and made improvements: cabins, fences, pastures and fruit orchards. They raised rye, barley, oats, hemp and flax as […]
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