July Genealogy To-Do
July promises to be a busy month on several fronts. We are doing a family reunion for one brach of my husband’s family in a couple of weeks, which means seeing some cousins not seen in awhile and meeting others …
Calling All Coffins, or, How My Coffin Lines Are Related
I recently connected with a possible relative through DNA testing. Our mitochondrial DNA looks vaguely like there is a connection, so we have been emailing about possible shared ancestors. While exchanging surnames, the Coffin line looked promising (although not my …
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June Genealogy To-Do
May was a fairly productive month, but much of what I accomplished was organizational so doesn’t show much. I need to better divide my time into organizational and research time. I did finish the draft of the William Boorman will, …
Susan Wilcox Justice (1797-1881)
Susan Wilcox was the last of my direct female ancestors to have migrated from Nantucket to Cincinnati in the early 1800s. She was about 14 years old when her mother (Phebe Foye), step-father (Thomas Myrick), and 3 half-siblings moved off …
May Genealogy To-Do
In April I managed to: 1. Finish renaming all the computer files in my Salt surname folder and sub-folders, and started adding birth-marriage-death evidence to my direct ancestors and a couple of closely related people. Yay!! 2. Make a lot …