When I look at my ancestral chart, the next to last couple on my Salt line are John Salt and Nancy Donovan Salt. I have written before about John but not about Nancy. Nancy is also the next to last …
Nancy Donovan Salt (1788-1845) – 52 Ancestors # 48 Read more »
There are a variety of non-population census schedules, some of which are accessible online these days (and some have actually been available for more than ten years). I think the first one I ran across was the mortality schedule for …
The Mortality Schedule, a Non-Population Census – 52 Ancestors # 34 Read more »
Jesse Justice was my 4th great grandfather (on two different lines) and one of the first ancestors I was aware of having served in the Revolutionary War. He was born about 1762 in Gloucester County, New Jersey to Andrew (or …
Rev. Jesse Justice (c 1762 – 1826) – 52 Ancestors # 27, Independence Read more »
I think all of us can say that luck is how we got to be here. Our ancestors chose to do something or go someplace, and survived so that they had descendants. I have written earlier the story of my …
When I saw that the third theme for the 52 Ancestors challenge is longevity, I immediately thought of my grandpa Lyle who lived to the day before his 101st birthday. However, before I started to write about him I decided …
William Eberle Thompson (1835-1940) – 52 Ancestors #3 Read more »