I wrote about my “black sheep” ancestor, John Salt in # 26. Briefly, the story is that he had dallied with one young woman promising marriage and then married another (in 1809). There are papers from court showing that he …
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I was raised in the middle of Indiana until high school, and so I learned about basketball and to like it as a sport. Basketball was a big school sport, followed by the students enthusiastically. When Sports came up as the …
For the theme this time I decided to look for whether I had any tenth great grandparents in my family database. I was pretty sure I did, thinking of a couple of family lines that I know go back a …
Who Are My Tenth Great Grandparents? – 52 Ancestors, # 40 Read more »
I have written in passing in a number of posts about the Salt family farm and house in Saltair, Ohio. This time I want to capture a glimpse of the farm as it looked in 1879-1880, based on the agricultural …
On the Farm at Saltair in 1879 – 52 Ancestors # 39 Read more »
Over the years I have written a number of posts that included the use of somewhat unusual sources for some of my information. I haven’t always highlighted the unusual source but more often just wrote about an ancestor or a …
Somewhat Unusual Sources and Why I Think We Should Use Them – 52 Ancestors # 38 Read more »