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My Fuller Ancestors. One of Six Families in Glastenbury, Vermont. 52 Ancestors, Week 44: Rural.
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
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Wide Open Spaces. 52 Ancestors, Week 32. Shared Ancestors with The Chicks sisters Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire.
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
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My English Gilman Ancestors and My Famous Cousin U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Abraham Lincoln has always been one of my favorite U.S. Presidents. When I traveled to Washington, D.C. in the spring of 2000, I made sure to visit the Lincoln Monument, Ford’s Theater, and the house across the street where he … Continue reading
Posted in Famous Kin, Genealogy
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Bruen, Caston, Clark, Cole, Colonial Massachusetts, Cunningham, Davidson, Davison, Doman, England, family history, Family Tree, Famous Kin, Flowers, Genealogy, Gilman, Gilmyn, Guerney, Gyllman, Hanks, Hawley, Hingham, History, Jacob, James, Jones, Lassell, Lincoln, Lyford, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Norwich, Prindle, Russell, Saham Toney, Salter, Snell, UK
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My 39th (and 40th) Great-grandfather Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor. 52 Ancestors, Week 41: Most.
This week’s writing prompt is most. I decided to discuss my 39th (and 40th) great-grandfather, Charlemagne, who was a Holy Roman Emperor in the 9th century. I am only one of his innumerable descendants. He has countless offspring. I venture … Continue reading
Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Catholic, Classic Hollywood Actors, Famous Kin, Genealogy, Religious
Tagged 52 Ancestors, Bamfield, Beauchamp, Ben Affleck, Brad Pitt, Canfield, Carolingian, Catholic, Charlemagne, Charles the Great, Christian, Cindy Crawford, Cobham, Cole, Collack, Colwick, Coplestone, de Beauchamp, de Clare, De Mohun, Derek Hough, Doman, England, faith, family history, Family Tree, Famous Cousin, Famous Kin, Fitz Geoffrey, Fitz Gilber de Clare, Fitz Gilbert, Fitz Peter, Genealogy, GIlbert, Glenn Close, Gray, Grey, Hugh Grant, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Lawrence, Julianne Hough, Kit Harington, Kyra Sedgwick, Lamberton, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mallory, Marilyn Monroe, Marshall, Matt Damon, Northrup, Norton, Oliver, Orchard, Prindle, Prowse, Richard Gere, St. Hilary, Trowbridge, White, Who Do You Think You Are?
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Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Interesting Kin. First Daughter, Acting First Lady, Suffragette, Greenwich Village Socialite, and Hindu Nun. 52 Ancestors, Week 51: Cousins.
With this week’s writing prompt, there were a myriad of cousins I could write about. Famous, well-known, historical, and those that lived simple lives. I was going to write about First Lady Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, the wife of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 52 Ancestors, ancestors, Bliss, Bright's Disease, British American Colonies, British Colonial America, Cole, Colonial Connecticut, Colonial Massachusetts, Dumbleton, Eastern mysticism, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, Ellen Axson Wilson, Ellen Louise Axson, Ellen Wilson, England, family history, Family Tree, First Daughter, First Ladies, First Ladies of the United States, First Lady, First Lady of the USA, Genealogy, Greenwich Village, Heald, Healy, Heath, Hindu, Hindu Nun, History, Hoyt, India, Leonard, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Mysticism, New York, Nun, Parsons, Pondicherry, Root, Singer, Socialite, Spencer, Spinster, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Ramakrishna, Suffragette, Suffragist, Suffragists, Swmai Nikhilananda, The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, Tilton, US President, Wales, Washington D.C., White House, White House social hostess, Woodrow Wilson.
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Youthful Shoplifters, My Grand-Aunt Goldie Cole & Her Friend Rosie Venck. 52 Ancestors, Week 46: This Ancestor Went to Market.
I wasn’t really sure what to write about this week when I received the prompt of this ancestor went to market, I do have some ancestors that took wool and cloth to market, I have a few siblings of my … Continue reading
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Tagged 52 Ancestors, Albert Bertalan Click Kaskeny, Allen County Indiana, Cole, Detroit, Dewing, family history, Family Tree, Fort Wayne Indiana, Ft. Wayne, Genealogy, Goldie Cole, Grand-aunt, grandaunt, Indiana, Indiana State Industrial School for Girls, Indianapolis, Indianapolis Girls' School, Joseph Vantrallo, Joseph Ventrallo, Kaskeny, Manville Harold Dewing, Michigan, Prindle, Rosie Venck, Rudolph H Tolliver, The Fort Wayne Daily News, The Indiana Girls' Industrial School, The Indiana Industrial School for Girls, This Ancestor Went to Market, Tolliver, Venck, Youthful Shoplifers
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Halloween Surnames. My Crackbone Ancestors from In and Around White Notley, Essex, England. Bones, Brooks, Ravens, and Crows. A Side Connection to Edgar Allan Poe.
I wrote this blog entry five days early, knowing the 52 Ancestors writing prompt coming up was going to be Spirits. To me, Crackbone is a perfect surname to write about at Halloween. It conjures up thoughts about cracking bones, … Continue reading
Posted in Famous Kin, Genealogy
Tagged All Saints Terling, Anglican, Baldwin, Bones, Branford, British America, British American Colonies, British Colonies, Brooks, Cambridge Massachusetts, Canfield, carrion crow, Chaplin, Christian, Clelmsford, Coggeshall, Cole, Colonial America, Colonial Connecticut, Connecticut, Cracbone, Crackbon, Crackbone, Crag, Cragbone, crak, Crakeborne, Crows, East Hanningfield, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allen Poe, England, Ernest Hemingway, Essex, family history, Family Tree, FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Genealogy, Gifford, Gloria Vanderbilt, Great Yeldham, Halloween, krákr, Mallory, Massachusetts, New Haven, Norton, Pequot War, Plumb, Preston, Prindle, Purcas, Purchas, Ravens, Sale, Sara Delano, Spaynes Hall, spirit animals, Terling, The Poole, The Raven, UK, Weathersfield, White Notley, Wood
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My Baldwin Ancestors. The Name Means Bold, Brave Friend. 52 Ancestors, Week 42: Friends.
I considered writing about my numerous Quaker, Society of Friends, Friends Church, ancestors with this week’s writing prompt of Friends. But there are so many that I decided it was best to write about them in the future, individually, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 52 Ancestors, Apuke, Aston Clinton, Astwood, Baldwin, Black Death, Boris Johnson, Bryan, Bryant, Buckinghamshire, Cholesbury, Christian, Cole, Colonial Connecticut, Connecticut, Dolte, Dundridge, England, English, Ernest Hemingway, faith, family history, Family Tree, First Lady of the USA, Flitwick, Founding families of Milford, Friends, Genealogy, King, Kinge, La Pest, Mamie Eisenhower, Manor of Dundridge, Memorial Bridge, Milford, Milford Memorial Bridge, New Haven, New Haven County, New Milford, Plague, Plumb, Prindle, St Michael and All Angels, The Black Death, the blue sickness, the Great Mortality, The Soule's Conflict, UK, Welles, Wells, Wepawaug River
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Three Interesting Tradesmen/Occupational Surnames in My Family Tree with Unique Meanings. Blower and Horne in England and Höerner/Hörner in Germany. 52 Ancestors, Week 36: Tradesman.
This week’s writing prompt is Tradesman. I considered writing about some of my ancestors and their trades and occupations, but instead opted to write about three of the surnames of my ancestors that are derived from their trade/occupation, all three … Continue reading
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Tagged 52 Ancestors, Albert, Armstrong, Baden-Württemberg, bellows-pumper, Blower, Brackett, Braintree, British Isles, calcant, church organs, Cole, Colonial Maryland, Colonial Massachusetts, Cummings, drinking horns, England, English, family history, Family Tree, French, Frost, Genealogy, German, Germany, hand blown organs, Hoerner, horn blower, horn maker, Horne, Horner, horns, Janet Horne, Jenny Horne, Kennedy, Kingsley, London, Main-Tauber-Kreis, Maryland, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Medieval, Medieval Blow Horn, Merchant, New York City, Niklashausen, Norfolk, Norris, Occupational Surnames, Ohio, organs, Pennsylvania, Pennsyvania, Price, Rona Munro, St. Mary's County Maryland, Stanstead, Sudbury, Suffolk, the blower, The Last Witch, Tradesmen, Tudor, Umlaut, United Kingdom, Walpurgis, Washington County Maryland, Wheatley, Witches, Witches in England, Witches in Scotland, Witches in UK
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