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My English Borodell Ancestors. The Truth is Much More Interesting Than the Fictitious Stories. Our Real Link to Regicide Andrew Broughton. 52 Ancestors, Week 42: Lost Contact.
I am writing this a few days early. I am sure the writing prompt Lost Contact can obviously relate to losing contact with a family member. Although the definition of and how we use the weekly prompts is always open … Continue reading
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Tagged 52 Ancestors, Ancestry, Andrew Broughton, Boadell, Borodell, British Colonial America, Cambridge Massachusetts, Charles I, Christian, Cockermouth, Colonial America, Colonial Massachusetts, Copeland, Cote, Crag House Bridge, Cragg House, Cumberland County England, Cumbria, Denison, Egremont, England, faith, family history, Family Tree, Genealogy, Gosforth, History, Irton, Maidenstone, Morden, More, NEHGS, Patrickson, regicide, Rev. Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev. John Yates, Rev. Jonathan Mitchell, Rev. Thomas Shepard, Santon, Santon Bridge, Scotland, Shepard, Switzerland, The Lake District, Vevey
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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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Surnames in My Tree, Stafford. 52 Ancestors, Week 30. Boats.
This week’s writing prompt is Boats. I could have linked my prior writings about my paternal Cogswell ancestors that survived a hurricane, or prior writings about my maternal ancestor Mary Wheldon Taylor that died on a small boat, or about … Continue reading
Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy
Tagged 52 Ancestors, Boat, Boats, Delaware, England, family history, Family Tree, Ford, Genealogy, McLinn, Rogers, Ship, Stafford, Sussex County, Wharf
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A Tangled Web Weaved. An Invalid Spouse, a Mistress, Illegitimate Children. What a Modus Vivendi!
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when at first we start to deceive.” – Sir Walter Scott. From his poem “Marmion”. This week’s writing prompt for 52 Ancestors is Favorite Recipe. I always cringe when this writing prompt or … Continue reading
Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy
Tagged 52 Ancestors, A scandalous affair, Affair, Ancestry, Arkansas, Baptist, Benton County Arkansas, Bradshaw, Carter, Christian, Crawford County Illinois, Deaf, Doty, Doughty, Ethan Frome, faith, family history, Family Tree, Gambill, Genealogy, Gibson, Gooden, History, Illegitimate children, Illinois, Joan Allen, Liam Neeson, Marmion, McGuire, modus vivendi, other woman, Palo Pinto, Patricia Arquette, Primitive Baptist, Sanford, Scott County Virginia, Shiloh, Sir Walter Scott, Slave Owner, Springdale, Tennessee, Texas, twins, Walter Scott, Washington County Arkansas, Watts, Yarberry, Yarbrough
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Updates on My Ancestors from in and Around Klingenmünster, Germany
In late February 2024, I was finally able to locate the baptism record of my 3rd great-grandfather, Heinrich Weiss. I am very grateful for the German genealogy website genealogienetz.de that has the Ortsfamilienbuch Klingenmünster (Klingenmünster Local Family Book) which contains church records, and death … Continue reading
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Tagged Öhl, bohrer, family, family history, Family Tree, Fried, Funstercke, Funstrocks, genealogienetz.de, Genealogy, Germany, Gleiszellen, Hacker, Häcker, Hecker, History, Klingenmünster, Klingenmunster, Nutick, Ohio, Ohl, Ortsfamilienbuch Klingenmünster, Propheter, Sambach, Weiss, Wendel, Willem, Zwipf
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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
Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy
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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My Ancestor Martha Willoughby. 52 Ancestors, Week 49: Family Recipe. Blindly Copying Family Information Without Vetting the Research (or Lack Thereof) is a Recipe for a Family Tree Disaster.
This week’s writing prompt is Family Recipe, the suggestions are all related to family cooking recipes. I don’t really have a family cooking recipe to discuss that I can think of. But there are more than one meaning for the … Continue reading
Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy
Tagged 1776, 1st Maryland Regiment, 52 Ancestors, Amercian Revolutionary War, American Revolution, Armstrong, British America, British American Colonies, British Colonial America, Bunyan, Colonial America, Colonial Maryland, Continental Troops, DAR, Dias, Diass, DNA, Donaldson, Dyas, England, family history, Family Recipe, Family Tree, Family Tree Disaster, Genealogy, Kentucky, Long, Lyons, Maryland, Maryland Regiment, Norris, Nutick, Ohio, Recipe, Smallwood's Maryland Regiment, Virginia, Weathersby, Williamson, Willoughby
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Abbess Elizabeth Throckmorton, 52 Ancestors, Week 47: This Ancestor Stayed Home
This week’s writing prompt is this ancestor stayed home, some suggestions given were Homemakers, ancestors who lived their entire lives in one place, and someone who lived in a “home,” are just a few possibilities. I decided to throw it way … Continue reading
Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Catholic, Famous Kin, Genealogy, Religious
Tagged 52 Ancestors, Abbess, Cambridgeshire, Catholic, Christian, Coughton, Coughton Court, Denny Abbey, dissolution of the monasteries, dole gate, Ely, England, faith, family history, Family Tree, Fladbury, Franciscan, Genealogy, Gunpowder Plot, Henry VIII, Humphrey Monmouth, IHS, Leicester, Middlemore, nuns, Olney, Poor Clares, religious houses, religious orders, Roman Catholic, Rule of Order, Templar church, Throckmorton, Underhill, Warwick, Warwickshire, Worcestershire
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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
Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy
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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