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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
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
Posted in Blanchard-Utterstrom Project
Tagged Monmouth, Kennebec, Patten, Penobscot County, Maine, Utterstrom, Chase
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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
Posted in Hopfe-Bauer Project
Tagged Brooklyn, Germany, Blankenburg, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis, Thüringen, Bronx, New York
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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
Posted in Rittenberry Project, General Help, DNA
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Ancestor Sketch – Ruby Foster Wilmoth (1912-1966)
Rittenberry Project Rittenberry-Shoemake-Wilmoth By Don Taylor Names fascinate me. When I was a child, I had a pastor whose name was Joyce. Since then, I’ve encountered other men with names that were unusual for men to have, such as Nancy … Continue reading
Posted in Rittenberry Project
Tagged Tennessee, Overton, Putnam, Cookevile, Poplar Springs
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