Category Archives: Projects

Ancestor Sketch – Thomas Washington Harris

Welch-Harris Line By Don Taylor   Welch-Harris Project – Ancestor WH12 List of Grandparents 6 – Grandfather: Living 12 – 1st Great-grandfather: Thomas Washington Harris 24 – 2nd Great-grandfather: Raymond O. Harris 48 – 3rd Great-grandfather: Thomas L. Harris Thomas … Continue reading

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Sketch – Albert B. Chase

Blanchard Project Utterstrom/Chase Research by Don Taylor It is so good when everything comes together during an initial inquiry into an ancestor. To me, an initial inquiry includes finding birth, marriage, and death records for the individual, plus following the … Continue reading

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Vigo County Public Library

Some time ago, I was researching ancestors who lived in Vigo County, Indiana. While researching, I found the Public Library there had some excellent genealogical resources. I added their website, https://www.vigo.lib.in.us to my bookmarks and promised myself that I’d return. … Continue reading

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Ancestor Bio – Oscar Hopfe

Hopfe Project By Don Taylor One of my favorite documents to find is a Naturalization Record.  I was recently researching Oscar Hopfe. Oscar was born in Germany on 12 April 1896 and came to the United States, arriving on 2 … Continue reading

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Ancestry DNA – DNA Story

One of the kits I manage, I’ll call “JS,” has received his Ethnicity Estimate and he now knows he is 88% descended from England, Wales, and Northwestern Europe, 10% from Ireland and Scotland, and two percent from Germanic Europe. Pretty … Continue reading

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