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Category Archives: Surname Projects
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 Maine, Utterstrom, Chase, Monmouth, Kennebec, Patten, Penobscot County
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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
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
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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