My Nantucket Grandmothers
There is a song or poem, titled The Nantucket Girl’s Song that was written in the 19th century by one or another woman traveling in the south Pacific on a ship. The poem appears in the back of a journal …
Author: Pat
January Genealogy To-Do
Welcome in 2016! It is going to be a great year for genealogy, I am determined. I have a couple of large goals, the first being to finally connect the English Denman family “dots” to learn who the parents of …
Tracking My Mother’s Mother’s Mother’s…
Having tested my mitochondrial DNA (on FTDNA) to expand my mother’s lines, I am in the process of doing a RootsMagic database to track those families and add evidence. As soon as my DNA results were posted in early 2014 …
December Genealogy To-Do
Well, in November I managed (finally!) to finish the transcription of the Michael Marten 1750 will. I needed the help of the wills-mistress of the Sussex Family History Group on several place names as well as the name of the …
An Orphan Finds a Home
I recently became the very pleased recipient of an orphaned photograph. I received the newest Huron County Kinologist in the mail a week or two ago, and actually sat down to read it (rather than my more usual habit of …