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Author Archives: Don Taylor
Ancestor Biography – Mary Electa Parsons (1828-1888)
Roberts/Brown 2016 Research Brown/Sanford/Parsons Line By Don Taylor List of Grandparents Grand Parent: Richard Earl Brown 1st Great: Arthur Durwood Brown 2nd Great: Marion Sanford 3rd Great: Mary Electa Parsons 4th Great: Chester Parsons 5th Great: John Parsons [Jr.] 6th … Continue reading
1840 Census and Chester Parsons
Census Sunday The 1840 census often exasperates genealogists. I find the information presented to be challenging and able to provide new questions as well as details. I was getting to know my 3rd great-grandmother, Mary Electa Parsons. In 1840 Mary … Continue reading
Posted in Brown-Montran, Censuses
Tagged Saline, Michigan, Chester Parsons, Robert Maben, Washtenaw County, 1840 Census, Mary Electra Parsons
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Ancestor Biography – Daniel Whitten (1859-1950)
Whitten-Bickford-2016 Project #8 – Whitten Line By Don Taylor It is often best and usually easiest to look at a person’s life backwards. That is to begin with their death records then follow them through all of the census records … Continue reading
Posted in Whitten Project
Tagged Maine, New Hampshire, Whitten, Daniel Whitten, Daniel Winfield Whitten, Herbert Winfield Whitten
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Arthur Durwood Brown – Born 1869
I saw that my Great-Grandfather’s, Arthur Durwood Brown, birthday was coming up. Then I realized that I have a quite a range of birth years for him. I know that markers are often wrong about birth years, but they seem so … Continue reading
Last Hopfe on Earth?
I was recently asked, “Are there any people left on Earth with the surname Hopfe?” As far as the asker knew, her Hopfe line had daughtered out with her. Certainly, surnames go extinct. I’ve read how Hugh Bonneville’s (famous for … Continue reading
