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Recording one’s own History: Off to London
Posted on May 9, 2025 Leave a Comment
This is a travel diary meant to record my trip. I have an old letter from my great aunt about her travels to Europe, along with the diary of my great grandmother so apologies to those who are looking strictly for genealogy. Tuesday May 6th, 2025Woke at 3 AM PST. That was appropriate as I […]
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. […]
Organizing Your Genealogy: How I do it Part Two
Posted on July 5, 2024 2 Comments
I wrote in an earlier post on this topic but realized in preparing for a Genealogy class on Organizing I needed to give more specifics. How I do it may not work for you. You must develop I system where you can intuit where you filed something without thinking. Not what someone else decides is […]
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. […]
Irish Genealogy Resources
Posted on March 2, 2024 3 Comments
This is a page of resources I have put together for my Genealogy Class. I hope they may be of interest to a broader audience as well. Some of these are pretty obscure so I hope that it expands your list of Irish resources. HINT: Finding Irish Origins for Immigrants In general there are two […]
German Immigrants to North Carolina: Pioneer Georg “Frederick” MOSER (1722-1800) Part Three
Posted on February 7, 2024 3 Comments
AFTER THE REVOLUTION As we ended the last chapter the North Carolina General Assembly at the close of the Revolutionary War had passed Confiscation Acts to confiscate the property of Loyalists. It may be in this way that Frederick MOSER reacquired his lands or gained clear title to them. We have many anomalies in the land […]
THE MOSERS IN BAVARIA: Wißenkirchberg, Hetzweiler, Kloster Sulz, Altengrueth
Posted on January 18, 2024 4 Comments
If you haven’t read the previous blog post BAVARIAN Hans MOSER c1623-1696 was from Austria, not Switzerland you should read it first. When last we met Hans MOSER he was part of a mass migration of “exulanten” or exiles having been expelled from Catholic Austria and resettling in a Lutheran part of Mittlfranken or Middle […]
German Migration to America: Johan Martin MOSER 1693-c.1743 Part Four
Posted on January 13, 2024 5 Comments
There are No coincidences!!! At least in this case, it is all connected. Back in Chapter One, remember that it was Daniel Falckner who wrote Accurate Tidings from Pennsylvania published in 1703. It was part travel information and part advertisement for Germans to immigrate to Pennsylvania. It may also be one of the “missives” referred […]
German Migration to America: Johan Martin MOSER 1693-c.1743 Part Two
Posted on January 8, 2024 4 Comments
If you haven’t read Part one you can read it here. In this chapter we will explore the beginnings of Martin MOSER’S family life and what led him and tens of thousands of others to leave Germany behind. In the year 1677 William Penn toured Germany where he spread the message that religious freedom could […]
German Migration to America: Johan Martin MOSER 1693-c.1743 Part One
Posted on January 6, 2024 3 Comments
This is the story of one of my many German ancestors. If he isn’t one of your ancestors this may not be of interest to you on it’s face. But if you have German ancestors who immigrated in the first half of the 18th century, there may be some things that you will want to […]
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