I started doing a genealogy happy dance a few weeks ago when I had a breakthrough. I have posted a couple of times (here and here) about the questions I have for my great grandmother and who her biological parents …
Here’s wishing all of us a healthy, happy, and peaceful New Year. I just went back and looked and my January 2014 To-Do List and realize how different things looked a year ago. I know I shouldn’t be surprised, but …
The evidence is amassing that Elizabeth M. Hockman/Earhart was not born to John Earhart and Margaret Shotwell. Here is what I have found so far. 1. Elizabeth Hockman, age 4, was enumerated with the John Arehart household in the 1860 …
Research * Earhart project: I received the Civil War pension file for Margaret Earhart applying based on her son Tilford’s death. This record was pulled and scanned for me by Pamela Loos-Noji at Kinwork Connections. I found her by using …
I’ve been thinking about my Earhart/Hockman question and trying to figure out what difference it makes anyway. Why do I care whether Mary Elizabeth was a Hockman or an Earhart child? I know, from my sister-in-law as well as my …
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