Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Titles Are Not Always What They Seem

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      I sat down today determined to find more information on my 4th great-grandfather Johann Fiedler.  Johann, after immigrating from Germa...
Saturday, January 3, 2026

How An Assumption Really Stymied my Research

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       My 3rd great-uncle John O'Hore was born in County Carlow, Ireland in 1819.  He married in 1845, the same year the famine began, ...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Widow Of A Revolutionary War Soldier? Or Who's Your Daddy?

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               For over ten years now, I've been attempting to prove that my third-great-grandmother Matilda Taylor, wife of Thomas Vinc...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Iskenius: Letters From Home

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          A photograph-- the dream of every genealogist, the holy grail of family research.  Through them, ancestors that we could only imag...
Friday, November 1, 2024

What's A Kloof? And Why It's Important to Know

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                                          Thomas Clements and Geertrury Koens 1766      I spent today deciphering the marriage record of my...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

The New Research Year Begins

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       Fall.  The very word makes me cringe.  My lovely perennial borders are now filled with dejected looking plants losing their leaves an...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

A New Way to Waste Time; In Which I Restore Angeline

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         This post is a follow-up on a recent blog post containing a photo that may, or may not, be my great-great-great-grandfather Jermia...