Sarah Folger Coffin (1761-1822)
As I said in the brief story of Sarah last month, she was a widow in her 50s with young and unmarried children still in her care when she left Nantucket and migrated to Cincinnati. While I don’t know the …
February Genealogy To-Do
I accomplished a little in January, mostly organizational. I continued to work away at organizing my Evernote notebooks, making it through 8 of the surname notebooks, and having 5 more to do. I start the month of February working in …
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 …
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 …