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- Five of My Grandfather’s Siblings – All Broken Branches. Premature Death, Never Able to Bloom and Grow into Adulthood. 52 Ancestors, Week 25: Broken Branch.
- The First Name Tacy. 34+ Women named Tacy in my Family Tree! 52 Ancestors, Week 24: Popular Name.
- My Ancestor James McTeer (Mateer) from Kilkeel, Down, N. Ireland. Lived in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Related lines. 52 Ancestors, Week 22: Conflict.
- My Ancestor Richard Taylor, the Tailor! 52 Ancestors, Week 20: Textile.
- My Cousin Carole Lombard. Our shared Mateer/Meteer Ancestors.
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The First Name Tacy. 34+ Women named Tacy in my Family Tree! 52 Ancestors, Week 24: Popular Name.
This week’s 52 Ancestors writing theme is “Popular Name”. This could include ancestors that have a name that was popular or trendy at the time, or a name that keeps getting used in your family tree. I decided to write … Continue reading →
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Tagged 52 Ancestors, Allen, Amy Adams, Babcock, Baptist, Barber, Billy Gilman, Burdick, Cash Warren, Christian, Clark, Cole, Congregational Church, Connecticut, Cooper, Crandall, Crumb, Davis, England, faith, family history, Family Names, Family Tree, Genealogy, Hall, Harry Chapin, History, Hubbard, Jeffrey, John Batterson Stetson, Kennedy, Kenyon, Larkin, Lewis, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Massachusetts, Maxson, New Jersey, Palmer, Price, Puritians, Rhode Island, Saretzki, Schullin, Scriven, Seventh-Day Baptist, Stillman, Tace, Tacie, Tacy, Tasy, Virginia, Washington County Rhode Island, West Virginia, Williams, Yeomans
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2021 – Week 46: Birthdays. My cousin the Treasonous Benedict Arnold and the Important Date of 21 September 1780.
When I got the prompt this week and read that it was birthdays, I considered writing about shared ancestors with my same birthday – the 21st of September. But then decided to take a different approach and write about what … Continue reading →
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Tagged 21 September, 52 Ancestors, American Revolution, Benedict Arnold, Birthdays, British America, British Colonies, Cole, Colonial America, England, family, family history, family stories, Family Tree, Genealogy, History, Peggy Shippen Arnold, President George Washington, Tory, Traitor, Treason
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2021 – Week 45: Stormy Weather. My ancestors John Cogswell / Elizabeth Thompson – The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 – The Ship Angel Gabriel
The ship Angel Gabriel was a 240-ton English passenger galleon. They journeyed from England to Massachusetts in a fleet of five ships, the Angel Gabriel joined by the James, the Elizabeth (Bess), the Mary and the Diligence. They left Bristol England on 4 June 1635. The Angel Gabriel was captained by Robert Andrews of Norwich, Norfolk, England. … Continue reading →
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Tagged 52 Ancestors, Angel Gabriel, British America, British Colonies, Calvin Coolidge, Christian, Cogswell, Colonial America, England, family, family history, family stories, Family Tree, Hampton New Hampshire, Historic Ipswich, History, Hurricanes, Isle of Shoals, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, JP Morgan, Lou Henry Hoover, Maine, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Newfoundland, Pemaquid Bay, Pete Buttigieg, Prince Harry, Prince William, Princess Diana, research, Shipwrecks, Stormy Weather, Tennessee Williams, The Cogswells in America, The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635, The ship Angel Gabriel, The ship Diligence, The ship Elizabeth Bess, The ship James, The ship Mary, Thompson, US Presidents, Westbury Leigh England, Westbury parish
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My McGuire/Maguire Ancestors from Fermanagh, No. Ireland and McElliogott Parish – near Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. In Virginia, Kentucky, and Indiana in USA.
The furthest I can take my McGuire ancestors back is to James McGuire born about 1620 in Fermanagh, Ulster, Northern Ireland and died about 1682 in McElligott Parish (near Tralee), Kerry, Ireland and Cecelia McNamara Reagh born about 1623 in … Continue reading →
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Tagged ancestors, Ancestry, Barnes, Barrett, Battle of Blue Licks, blog, Blue Licks Battlefield, Catholic, County Kerry, Daniel Boone, DNA, Doty, Doughty, family history, Family Tree, Fermanagh, Genealogist, Genealogy, Gooden, Goodin, Goodwin, History, Indiana, Ireland, Irish, Kentucky, Lamb, Maguire, Maxey, Mayflower Pilgrim, McElligott, McGuire, McNamara, Northern Ireland, O'Brien, Primitive Baptist, Quakers, Reagh, research, Tralee, Ulster, Urquhart, Virginia, Watts, Writing
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My Lozier/Losure/Loser/Looser/Loeser Ancestors from Oberriexingen, Germany (and related lines)
My maternal 3rd great-grandparents Joseph Losure and Sarah Lozier were 1st cousins. The furthest I can take this line back is to my 8th great-grandfather Elias Looser. He was born about 1663 in Oberriexingen, Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. I found one … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alertshausen, ancestors, Ancestry, Baden-Württemberg, Basel, blog, Diedenshausen, DNA, Dumbald, Dumbauld, family history, family stories, Family Tree, First Cousins intermarriage, Genealogy, German, Germany, Girkhausen, Hager, Harnester, History, Indiana, Kasebier, Keller, Kemper, Lang, Lörrach, Loeser, Loew, Loewe, Looser, Lorrach, Loser, Losure, Lozier, Lueckel, Merchant, Michaelis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Oberriexingen, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Perry County Ohio, Rausch, research, Scheffhen, Schwenck, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Stuttgart, Swiss, Switzerland, Tschudi, Womelsdorf
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My Ancestor William Durkee – First Irish Catholic to settle in Massachusetts
My more recent immigrant ancestors were from in and around Gort and Peterswell Parish in Galway, Ireland, and from Klingenmünster in the Südliche Weinstraße (Southwest Wine Route) district in Germany. I have to go back an additional eighty-five years to find … Continue reading →
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Tagged 52 Ancestors, Barbados, British America, British Colonies, Catholic, Colonial America, Essex County, Family Tree, Genealogy, George Martin, History, Ipswich, Irish, Irish Indentured Servants, Irish Slaves, Ispwich, Martha Cross, Massachusetts, Mercy Durkee, Puritians, Red Legs, Salem Witch Trials, Susannah Martin, Susannah North, West Indies, William Durkee
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