Author Archives: Anna Kasper, ACDP

About Anna Kasper, ACDP

I am an avid Genealogist. I am an ACDP - Associate of the Congregation of Divine Providence (Sisters of Divine Providence of Texas). If you are unfamiliar with what a Religious Associate (also called an Affiliate, Consociate, Oblate, Companion) is exactly, visit my about me page for more information. In community college, I majored in American Sign Language/Deaf Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies when at university.

Cpt. Samuel DeWees. Fife Player During American Revolutionary War & War of 1812. Extended Family. 52 Ancestors, Week 51, Musical.

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s writing prompt is Musical. I have numerous musicians in my close family, and my great-grandfather Abraham G. Kennedy played piano and, after his retirement from teaching, worked in a piano store and a music store. Previously, I wrote … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy | Tagged 52 Ancestors, American Revolution, Ancestry, Colonial America, Dewees, Dohrs, Doors, Drum, Eleanor Roosevelt, family history, Family Tree, Fife, Fife and Drum, Genealogy, German, Kasebier, Kennedy, Kuster, Losure, Lozier, Musical, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Dutch, Samuel Dewees, Theodore Roosevelt, War of 1812, Wenrich, Womelsdorf | Leave a comment

Happy Birthday to My Very Distant Cousin Jane Austen.

Posted on December 16, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

Today, December 16, 2025, is Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. She was born December 16, 1775. It was once thought that I had a much closer connection with Jane Austen, via my ancestor Elizabeth Lane, wife of John Hine. They are my … Continue reading →

Posted in Famous Kin, Genealogy | Tagged Ancestry, England, family history, Family Tree, Genealogy, History, Jane Austen, John King of England | Leave a comment

Surname Saturday. My Barton Ancestors of Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

Posted on December 6, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

My Barton ancestors are on my paternal Armstrong/Lyons lines. Armstrong-Lyons-Barton. My third great-grandmother is Catherine Ann Barton. She was born on 11 November 1795 in Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, as the daughter of Thomas Barton and Rebecca Ann Cooper. She died 11 … Continue reading →

Posted in Genealogy, Religious | Tagged American Revolution, Ancestry, Armstrong, Barton, Benezet, Billingsley, Booz, Boyer, Brown, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Camden New Jersey, Christian, Colonial America, Eldridge, England, faith, family, family history, Family Tree, Genealogy, Gerves, Gervise, Gloucester County New Jersey, Greer, Gunpowder hundred, History, Hitchcock, Johnson, Jones, Joppa, LaRue, Lodge, Lyons, Maryland, New Jersey, Norris, Nutick, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Pickett, Quaker, Rollo, Rollow, Searl, Severns, Society of Friends, Surname Saturday, Van Sant, Ward, Winner, Wright | Leave a comment

Happy Thanksgiving! Grace, Favor, Thankful, and Blessed. Recent Direct Ancestors named Anna and Related Names.

Posted on November 27, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

The main meaning of my name Anna is grace, divine favor, and God has shown favor. It comes from the Hebrew name Hannah. Is can be related to the name Anastasia, meaning resurrection. In other languages, from around the world, … Continue reading →

Posted in Beauty and Self-Acceptance, Bible Study, Catholic, Genealogy, Religious, Uncategorized | Tagged Agnes, Albert, Ana, Anastasia, ancestors, Ancestry, Ancy, Ann, Anna, Anne, Annette, Annis, Armstrong, Barrett, Blessed, Catholic, Chambers, Christian, Cole, Cool, Cunningham, Davidson, Desiree, Doman, Doty, Doughty, Druckenmiller, Dumm, faith, family history, Family Tree, Favor, Favour, Featherstone, Genealogy, Gooden, Grace, Graham, Greatsinger, Grosshans, Hafer, Hannah, Happy Thanksgiving, History, Hoerner, Jesus, Johanna, Joynt, Kennedy, Kuhl, Lamb, Larkin, Linaberry, Lindaberry, Linnenberg, Litts, Mary Ann, Mary Mother of Jesus, McGuire, Mertz, Mine Ancy, Nancy, Norris, Palmer, Price, Prindle, Priscilla, Propheter, Rogers, Scherp, Shepherd, Spatz, St. Anna, St. Anne, Stafford, Talbot, Thankful, Thanksgiving, Watts, Weinmann | Leave a comment

My Fuller Ancestors. One of Six Families in Glastenbury, Vermont. 52 Ancestors, Week 44: Rural.

Posted on October 29, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s writing prompt is Rural. I decided to write about my Fuller ancestors living in the forbidding, mountainous, rocky terrain of Glastenbury, Bennington County, Vermont. It is about as rural as you will find! The town was sparsely populated from … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Ancestry, Bennington County, bizarre, Broome County, Cole, family history, Family Tree, Fuller, Genealogy, ghost town, Glastenbury, hiking, History, Rural, The Bennington Triangle, travel, Triangle New York, UFO, Vermont, wilderness | Leave a comment

My Beauharnais Ancestors of Orléans, France, and Our Close Connection to St. Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc).

Posted on September 26, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

In the past, I have written about my maternal ancestors Daniel Streing/Strang, Sr., and Charlotte Marie Lemaistre. I discussed their lives in France, England, and New York. In my writings about them, I did not take their lines further back … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholic, Famous Kin, Genealogy, Religious | Tagged Alexandre de Beauharnais, Ancestry, Beauharnais, Beauharnois, Boilleve, Brittany, Buastier, Buatier, Budd, Calvinists, Catholic, Charles, Christian, Coeu, Colonial America, De Bourges, de la Barre, de Loynes, Du Pree, Dupree, England, Eugène de Beauharnais, europe, faith, family history, Family Tree, France, French, French Huguenots, French Protestants, Genealogy, Giens, Hillaire, History, Hortense de Beauharnais, Huguenot, Jeanne d'Arc, Joan of Arc, Joséphine Bonaparte, Joséphine de Beauharnais, Joséphine of Leuchtenberg, Kennedy, La Chaussée, La Grilliere, Le Beau, Le Marie, Le Noir, Le Vassor, LeBeau, Leelee Sobieski, Lemaistre, Lenoir, literature, Loire Valley, Loiret, Lutheran, Madeleine Fabry, Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, Mariette, Miramion, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon III, New York, Orléans, Palmer, Pierre Séguier, Royal Houses, Sine, Souchay, Spatz, Spotts, St. Joan of Arc, Ste. Jeanne d'Arc, Strang, Streing, Uzès, Vacher, Vasher, Verdon, Villechauve | Leave a comment

My Schönlaub Ancestors of Minfeld, Germany. A Censor, A Mayor, A Collector (and Murder Victim), A Lawyer/Court Judge, and an Innkeeper.

Posted on September 7, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

The furthest back that I can take my Schönlaub ancestors is to my fourteenth great-grandparents. Yes, my 14th great-grandparents! They were Steffan Schönlaub and his wife, Barbara ____ of Minfeld, Germany. These are the ancestors of my great-grandmother Alice Elizabeth … Continue reading →

Posted in Genealogy, Religious | Tagged Alsace, Armstrong, Attorney, Barbelroth, Bas-Rhin, Catholic, Censor, Christian, Collector, Court, crime, Daub, Deutschland, Doerrenbach, Einnehmer, faith, family history, Family Tree, France, Fried, Genealogy, Germany, Germersheim, Hannß Gammel, History, Ilbesheim bei Landau in der Pfalz, Innkeeper, Judge, Kandel, Klingenmunster, Lambach, laub, Lawyer, Le Beau, LeBeau, Lutheran, Mayor, Minfeld, Murder, Murder Victim, Nutick, Ortsfamilienbuch Klingenmünster, Pfälz, Pfälzer, Pfälzer Saumagen, Propheter, Religion, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saumagen, Schäffer, schön, Schönlaub, St. Martin's Eve, Strasbourg, Wegt, Weinmann, Weis, Weiss, Wirt Minfeld zur Krone, Wissembourg, Zensor, Zimmer | 1 Comment

Wide Open Spaces. 52 Ancestors, Week 32. Shared Ancestors with The Chicks sisters Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire.

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s writing prompt is Wide Open Spaces. There are obvious ways this prompt could be taken; ancestors that homesteaded, or had a great love of the outdoors, etc. What came to mind immediately was the song “Wide Open Spaces” … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy | Tagged Ancestry, Baldwin, Bures, Bures St Mary, Cole, Colonial America, Colonial Connecticut, Colonial New Haven, Colonial New Milford, Edmund Moody, Emily Robinson, Emily Strayer, England, Essex, faith, family history, Family Tree, French, Genealogy, Henry VIII, Hertfordshire, History, Hitchin, Judd, Kilbourn, Kilbourne, Kings Walden, Luton, Marchant, Martie Maguire, Merchant, Mildford, Moody, Mudge, New Haven, New Milford, Plumb, Prindle, Pringle, Prudden, Scotland, Streatley, Suffolk, The Chicks, The Court Yard Hounds, The Dixie Chicks, The Tudors, UK, Wide Open Spaces, Wolf Hall, Writing | Leave a comment

Emotional Aspects of Family Tree Research. My Great-great grandfather Elias Nutick. Death by Hanging.

Posted on July 11, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

A few months ago, I stumbled upon new information regarding my great-great grandfather, Elias Nutick. Frankly, I did not know what to do with this new information. I was taken aback by my strong emotional response to the news. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Genealogy | Tagged Ancestry, Cincinnati, family, family history, Family Tree, Genealogy, Germany, Hamilton County Ohio, History, Laurel Cemetery, Madisonville, Nutick, Ohio, Poland, Udig, Utick, Utig, Wegt, weiß, Weigt | 2 Comments

Happy Leon Day! My Christmas Ancestors of Worplesdon, Surrey, England; London, England; Colonial Virginia & North Carolina.

Posted on June 25, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

Today, June 25th, is National Leon Day. Leon is Noel spelled backward. The day is a playful reminder that Christmas is only six months away. It is the day some crafters begin planning their homemade gifts and decorations. It can … Continue reading →

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Author Archives: Anna Kasper, ACDP

About Anna Kasper, ACDP

Cpt. Samuel DeWees. Fife Player During American Revolutionary War & War of 1812. Extended Family. 52 Ancestors, Week 51, Musical.

Happy Birthday to My Very Distant Cousin Jane Austen.

Surname Saturday. My Barton Ancestors of Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.

Happy Thanksgiving! Grace, Favor, Thankful, and Blessed. Recent Direct Ancestors named Anna and Related Names.

My Fuller Ancestors. One of Six Families in Glastenbury, Vermont. 52 Ancestors, Week 44: Rural.

My Beauharnais Ancestors of Orléans, France, and Our Close Connection to St. Joan of Arc (Jeanne d’Arc).

My Schönlaub Ancestors of Minfeld, Germany. A Censor, A Mayor, A Collector (and Murder Victim), A Lawyer/Court Judge, and an Innkeeper.

Wide Open Spaces. 52 Ancestors, Week 32. Shared Ancestors with The Chicks sisters Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire.

Emotional Aspects of Family Tree Research. My Great-great grandfather Elias Nutick. Death by Hanging.

Happy Leon Day! My Christmas Ancestors of Worplesdon, Surrey, England; London, England; Colonial Virginia & North Carolina.

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