Category Archives: Howell

Research into the Howell Family Line Including the following individuals with

  • 2. Clarence Fletcher Howell.
  • 92. Lewis Bryan.
  • 184. Robert Bryan.

Caroline Pankey’s Mother – Martha!

Needless to say when you begin a new genealogical subscription or service you want to check out if it might clear up one of your brick walls.  In one of my research areas, I have someone who died back in … Continue reading

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Marriage Bond – The Library of Virginia

Thanks to the Library of Virginia and their microfilm interlibrary loan, I was able to see the documents showing Peter M Howell and Caroline M. A. Pankey’s marriage. Continue reading

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Y-DNA Test Results – Post 3: The Howell Test & Results

Previous Y-DNA Post: Post 2: The Test, Results, & Roberts Connection After the success I had with my Y-DNA test, my wife was excited to find what she could. I explained to her that we could only do a mitochondrial … Continue reading

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The Life and Travels of Peter Howell by Himself

This week I began research on the Howell Family Tree (my wife’s).  I had very little on her grandfather, a bit more on his father (who was in the Civil War) and very little about his father Peter Howell. Unfortunately, … Continue reading

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Perseus Hopper – Richmond Times Dispatch 1860-1865

Sometimes you come across fantastic sites for research while doing something entirely different. I went to the Perseus site at Tufts University to research some Greek Mythology. I was amazed. Besides the Primary and secondary sources for studying ancient Greece and Rome, … Continue reading

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