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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

Surname Saturday. My Hicks ancestors of Southwark St Olave, England & Colonial Rhode Island, New York & Maryland & Our Hicks Cousin Willis Carrier.

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

My sixth great-grandmother is Rebecca Hicks. She married John Armstrong, Jr. on 26 August 1714 at St Johns Parish, Joppa, Maryland. Joppa is a former colonial town in Maryland. He was the son of John Armstrong and Jane Boone. She was born … Continue reading →

Posted in Famous Kin, Genealogy | Tagged Air Conditioning, Ancestry, Armstrong, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Chapel of St. Faith, Colonial America, Colonial Maryland, Colonial Massachusetts, Colonial New York, Cutchin, Doughty, England, family history, Family Tree, Flushing, Gardiner, Genealogy, Gloucestershire, Harford County Maryland, Harwood Long, Haviland, Herodias Long, Hick, HIcke, Hicks, Hikke, History, HVAC, Innovators, Inventors, Joppa, London, Long, Lyons, Maryland, Nehemiah Hicks, New York, Norris, Nutick, Oldbury, Puritans, Queens New York, Rev. Elias Doughty, Rhode Island, Shepard, Shepherd, Southwark, Southwark Salter, St Olave, St. Faith, St. Faith of Aquitaine, St. Faith's Church, St. Olaves, St. Paul's Cathedral, UK, Willis Carrier | Leave a comment

Gravestone of Sarah Cooper Woodruff. 52 Ancestors, Week 37 & 38, Tombstone & Symbols.

Posted on September 12, 2024 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s writing prompt is Tombstone, the following week is Symbol. I decided to write about the interesting gravestone of Sarah Cooper Woodruff. It is pictured above. The combination of the cross bones effigy with an hourglass flanked by doves … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy, Religious | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Armstrong, Baker, Barton, Birds, Cemeteries, Christian, Christian Iconography, Colonial Massachusetts, Colonial New Jersey, Colonial New York, Cooper, Dove, Elizabeth New Jersey, Elizabethtown, faith, family history, Family Tree, First Presbyterian Churchyard, Genealogy, Grave Marker, Gravestone, Hatfield, Hourglass, Knigh, Lyon, Lyons, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Parsons, Puritan, Puritans, Skull and Crossbones, Symbol, symbolism, Symbols, Tombstone, Vines, Woodruff | 1 Comment

Margaret Woodrow Wilson, Interesting Kin. First Daughter, Acting First Lady, Suffragette, Greenwich Village Socialite, and Hindu Nun. 52 Ancestors, Week 51: Cousins.

Posted on December 17, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

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. | Leave a comment

My Ancestor Capt. Humphrey Underhill of Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire, England & Jamaica (Queens), New York & Rye, New York. War & Peace, 52 Ancestors, Week 45

Posted on November 3, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

In writing a response to this week’s 52 Ancestors writing prompt War and Peace, I considered writing about any of my numerous ancestors and their war service and stories, I have ancestors that served in all the wars in the … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Budd, Clifford Chambers, England, family history, Family Tree, Genealogy, Haal, Hall, Humphrey, Kennedy, New York, Palmer, Rowlesson, Sine, Spatz, Spots, Spotts, Strang, Stratford-upon-Avon, Underhill, Wolf | 1 Comment

Walpurgisnacht (Saint Walpurgis Night), Saint Walpurga, My Ancestors Named Walpurgis from Tauber Franconia (Germany)

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

Today, April 30th, is half-way to Halloween! For someone that loves Halloween — I am a closet actress that missed her calling! — today is a pleasant reminder that summer, which hasn’t even started, will be over soon enough! I … Continue reading →

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My Ancestor Named Ursula – 52 Ancestors, Week 14: Begins with a Vowel

Posted on April 4, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

When trying to decide who to write about this week, I do have a few ancestors that both their first and last names begin with a vowel, including my eleventh great-grandfather Egidius Egen who was born and died in Dettingen … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Budd, Christian, Driedorf, Drisch, Drucksen, Dutch, Dutch Reformed Church, faith, family history, Family Tree, Genealogy, German, German Naming, Germany, Hesse, Hohenroth, Indiana, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Le Maistre, Lemaistre, Major General Joseph Bartholomew, Maul, Maulin, Mormonism, Moulyn, New York, North Tarrytown, Palmer, Rufname, Sayn, Sine, Sleepy Hollow, Strang, Syn, Tarrytown, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Urseltje, Ursey, Ursie, Ursty, Ursula, Washington Irving, Westchester County New York | 2 Comments

52 Ancestors Week 34: Timeline. Trying to Reconstruct a Timeline of My 3rd Great-Grandparents Michael Nestor and Catherine Hansberry using Irish Petty Session Court Registers.

Posted on August 22, 2022 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s writing prompt is Timeline. I have decided to write about my 3rd great-grandparents Michael Nestor and Catherine Hansberry of Gort, Galway, Ireland. In my research they appear to be non-existent in church and census records in Ireland! Below … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy | Tagged 52 Ancestors, ancestors, Ancestry, Aroma, Beagh, Caherlavine, Carroll, Catholic, Chicago, Christian, Connelly, Cook County, Derreen, Derrybrien, DNA, Donnady, Donovan, Dormady, Doyle, Duignan, Emmetsburg, Fahey, Fahy, family history, Family Tree, Fay, Galway, Genealogy, Gilchreest, Glynn, Gort, Grimes, Hanberry, Hanlon, Hansberry, Hillsbrook, Illinois, Iowa, Ireland, Irish, Joynt, Kankakee County, Kentucky, Kilbeacanty, Loughrea, Louisville Kentucky, McCarthy, McDermott, Monaghan, Moylan, Mullen, Mullens, Mullins, Murphy, Nestor, New York, New York City, Ottumwa, Palo Alto County, Pennsylvania, Petty Session Courts, Pittsburgh, Shaughnessy, Timeline, Troy, Tuam, United States, US Census, Walsh, Wapello County, Ward | Leave a comment

William G. Lyons, My 2nd Great Granduncle. 52 Ancestors, Week 27: Extended Family.

Posted on July 10, 2022 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s writing prompt for 52 Ancestors is Extended Family. We often focus on those people from whom we descend. But what about their siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins? They played a role in our ancestors’ lives, just like those … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Addis, Armstrong, Barton, Bucks County Pennsylvania, California, Chainman Mine, Cooper, Cowger's Ranch, Dutch, Ely, English, Family Tree, Genealogy, German, Gold, Gold Rush, Hamilton County Ohio, Jewett Adams, Kansas, Lukens, Lyons, Lyons County Nevada, McGill, Miami County Ohio, Mineral City, Mining, Monitor Mine, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Placer County California, Silver, Stinsman, Virginia City Nevada, Ward Nevada, White Pine | 6 Comments

My Immigrant Ancestor Daniel Strang, Sr. – A Frenchman Who Could NOT Make a Tasty Fricassee!

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

This week’s writing prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Food and Drink. I immediately thought of my ancestor Daniel Strang, Sr! Evidently, according to Madam Knight of Boston, he may have owned an inn and tavern in Rye, … Continue reading →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Genealogy, Recipes | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Brown Fricassee, Colonial America, Colonial America Cooking, Colonial New York, Cooking, England, family history, Family Tree, Food and Drink, France, French, French Cooking, French Huguenots, Fricassee, Genealogy, Gien, Lemaistre, Loiret, Lorret, New York, Rabbit, Recipes, Rye New York, Strang, Strang's Tavern, Streing, The Chateau de Chamerolles, Westchester County New York | 3 Comments

Tag Archives: New York

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

Surname Saturday. My Hicks ancestors of Southwark St Olave, England & Colonial Rhode Island, New York & Maryland & Our Hicks Cousin Willis Carrier.

Gravestone of Sarah Cooper Woodruff. 52 Ancestors, Week 37 & 38, Tombstone & Symbols.

My Ancestor Capt. Humphrey Underhill of Clifford Chambers, Gloucestershire, England & Jamaica (Queens), New York & Rye, New York. War & Peace, 52 Ancestors, Week 45

Walpurgisnacht (Saint Walpurgis Night), Saint Walpurga, My Ancestors Named Walpurgis from Tauber Franconia (Germany)

My Ancestor Named Ursula – 52 Ancestors, Week 14: Begins with a Vowel

52 Ancestors Week 34: Timeline. Trying to Reconstruct a Timeline of My 3rd Great-Grandparents Michael Nestor and Catherine Hansberry using Irish Petty Session Court Registers.

William G. Lyons, My 2nd Great Granduncle. 52 Ancestors, Week 27: Extended Family.

My Immigrant Ancestor Daniel Strang, Sr. – A Frenchman Who Could NOT Make a Tasty Fricassee!

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