Tag Archives: Frank Kellogg

My Ancestor Phebe Fed Prindle and Her Correct Maiden Name. Colonial Records in Connecticut, the Various Ways the Capital Letters F, J, and T were Written in Colonial American Handwriting. Transcription Errors. Records Destroyed by the British. DNA. Surnames in Colonial America. 52 Ancestors, Week 49: Written.

This week’s 52 Ancestors writing prompt is Written. Suggestions for the prompt were writing about someone in my family that is a writer (besides me!), someone who had a habit of sending letters to the editor of newspapers, those that … Continue reading

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My Beardsley Ancestors, The Lost Village of Beard’s Wood, My Family Connection to P.T. Barnum and General Tom Thumb. 52 Ancestors, Week 20: Bearded.

This week’s writing prompt is the word bearded. Although, my great-great grandfather John Davis Kennedy had a pretty cool looking beard in the photo of him in his US Civil War Union uniform, there is not much else to write … Continue reading

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