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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Congratulations on the Birth of Newell

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From:   Our Jenkins Heritage by John F.  Jenkins   (Greenfield, NH: 50 copies Privately Printed, 1980).  Page 81. "Among the letter...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Rice University Helped Me

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J ust two years ago, I had a haphazard email correspondence with somebody who wasn't the least interested in my genealogy, but she was i...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

Jacob Scramlin's Obituary (New York to Michigan)

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The below obituary is similar to any other obituary I have. Jacob Scramlin was my 3rd great-grandfather. When I received this, I already had...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Surname Saturday -- MUNSON (4 Generations) Connecticut

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My Munson line lived in several towns in Connection. Mostly, New Haven and Wallingford. My brick wall is shown below, in red. I am trying t...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Looking Back - November 2010

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A year ago I began posting my cemetery stone photos for the Tombstone Tuesday entries on my blog.  It became a huge project, since ...

Tombstone Tuesday -- CLANCY -- (2 Generations) New York

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Byron Cemetery.  Byron, Genesee Co., New York Pierre L. Clancy, son of Milton and Phoebe Clancy Born:  July 1859, New York Died:  1932, Gene...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Amanuensis Monday -- History of the Eastern Townships

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Amanuensis Monday was begun by John Newmark of the TransylvanianDutch blog. The term means, "a person employed to write what another d...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Owl Hoot Maple Farm -- What Surprises Awaited Me

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We, my husband and I, were in an area far from home and in an country he had never been. We passed a sign for the Owl Hoot Maple Farm and ...
Saturday, November 27, 2010

Surname Saturday -- NELLIS -- (3 Generations) Germany > New York

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Another of my German lines who settled in New York State. The name Nellis was also spelled Nelles. If you have this line, you are in luck be...