Tag Archives: Prindle

Surname Saturday. My Bonnet Ancestors of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France and Berlin, Germany.

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

I have been doing further research on my Bonnet ancestors. I was going to add the new information to my original post about my Greatsinger ancestors: My Greatsinger (Gretzinger) and Bonnett ancestors of Berlin, Germany and Related Lines, but that post … Continue reading →

Posted in Genealogy, Religious | Tagged Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alps of Upper Provence, Ancestry, Berlin, Bonnet, Bonnett, Brandenburg, Christian, Entrepierres, faith, family history, Family Tree, France, French, French Alps, French Huguenot, Genealogy, German, Germany, Greatsinger, Gretzinger, Huguenot, Huguenots, Koppen, La Motte-du-Caire, Lebron, Lebrond, Lebrun, Northern Italy, Prindle, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Rogon, Rolande, Rolland, Rougon, Seyne, Southern Alps, Steiner, travel, Waldensians | 2 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving! Grace, Favor, Thankful, and Blessed. Recent Direct Ancestors named Anna and Related Names.

Posted on November 27, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

The main meaning of my name Anna is grace, divine favor, and God has shown favor. It comes from the Hebrew name Hannah. Is can be related to the name Anastasia, meaning resurrection. In other languages, from around the world, … Continue reading →

Posted in Beauty and Self-Acceptance, Bible Study, Catholic, Genealogy, Religious, Uncategorized | Tagged Agnes, Albert, Ana, Anastasia, ancestors, Ancestry, Ancy, Ann, Anna, Anne, Annette, Annis, Armstrong, Barrett, Blessed, Catholic, Chambers, Christian, Cole, Cool, Cunningham, Davidson, Desiree, Doman, Doty, Doughty, Druckenmiller, Dumm, faith, family history, Family Tree, Favor, Favour, Featherstone, Genealogy, Gooden, Grace, Graham, Greatsinger, Grosshans, Hafer, Hannah, Happy Thanksgiving, History, Hoerner, Jesus, Johanna, Joynt, Kennedy, Kuhl, Lamb, Larkin, Linaberry, Lindaberry, Linnenberg, Litts, Mary Ann, Mary Mother of Jesus, McGuire, Mertz, Mine Ancy, Nancy, Norris, Palmer, Price, Prindle, Priscilla, Propheter, Rogers, Scherp, Shepherd, Spatz, St. Anna, St. Anne, Stafford, Talbot, Thankful, Thanksgiving, Watts, Weinmann | Leave a comment

Wide Open Spaces. 52 Ancestors, Week 32. Shared Ancestors with The Chicks sisters Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire.

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

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 | Leave a comment

My English Gilman Ancestors and My Famous Cousin U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

Posted on February 24, 2025 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

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 | 1 Comment

My 39th (and 40th) Great-grandfather Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor. 52 Ancestors, Week 41: Most.

Posted on October 6, 2024 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

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? | Leave a comment

Youthful Shoplifters, My Grand-Aunt Goldie Cole & Her Friend Rosie Venck. 52 Ancestors, Week 46: This Ancestor Went to Market.

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

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 | 1 Comment

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.

Posted on October 22, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

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 | 3 Comments

My Baldwin Ancestors. The Name Means Bold, Brave Friend. 52 Ancestors, Week 42: Friends.

Posted on October 15, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

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 →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy, Religious | 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 | 3 Comments

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.

Posted on August 19, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

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 →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Classic Hollywood Actors, Famous Kin, Genealogy | Tagged 52 Ancestors, A tree stump, American Revolution, Ancestry, Bethel, Braintree Essex, Brick Wall, British Colonial America, British Colonies, Christian, Colonial America, Colonial Connecticut, Colonial Massachusetts, Connecticut, Cursive Writing, Danbury, Dead end, DNA, England, Fairfield County Connecticut, faith, family history, Family Tree, Fed, Fedd, Fowkes, Fox, Frank Kellogg, Genealogy, Gilbert Clifford Nobel, Handwriting, Jud, Judd, Loomis, Mark Hopkins Jr, New Fairfield, New Haven, New Milford, O. Henry, Phebe, Prindle, Sherman Connecticut, Tedd, The Judds, UK, Windsor, Written | 1 Comment

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.

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Anna Kasper, ACDP

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 →

Posted in 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, Famous Kin, Genealogy | Tagged 52 Ancestors, Albright, Allis, Amy Adams, Anna Gunn, Bardsley, Beard, Beard's Wood, Beardslee, Beardsley, Belding, Blakeman, Boston, Christian, Church of England, Clement, Cole, Colonial America, Colonial Connecticut, Colonial Massachusetts, Concord, Connecticut, Derbyshire, Doman, Edward Norton, Emily Dickinson, England, English, Erewash River, family history, Family Tree, Frank Kellogg, French, Fuller, Genealogy, General Tom Thumb, Harvey, Harvie, Howard Dean, Howard Hawks, Ilkieston, Janis Joplin, Jeremiah Day, leah, Leicestershire, Leonard, London, Lost Villages, Massachusetts, Meekins, Merchant, Mollis Chapel, Northup, Nottinghamshire, Phil Knight, Prindle, PT Barnum, Root, Scott, Ship Planter, St. Mary's Ilkieston, Stratford, The Black Death, Treat Williams, Wells, WK Kellogg, Wood, Zoe Kazan | 3 Comments

Tag Archives: Prindle

Surname Saturday. My Bonnet Ancestors of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France and Berlin, Germany.

Happy Thanksgiving! Grace, Favor, Thankful, and Blessed. Recent Direct Ancestors named Anna and Related Names.

Wide Open Spaces. 52 Ancestors, Week 32. Shared Ancestors with The Chicks sisters Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire.

My English Gilman Ancestors and My Famous Cousin U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

My 39th (and 40th) Great-grandfather Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor. 52 Ancestors, Week 41: Most.

Youthful Shoplifters, My Grand-Aunt Goldie Cole & Her Friend Rosie Venck. 52 Ancestors, Week 46: This Ancestor Went to Market.

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.

My Baldwin Ancestors. The Name Means Bold, Brave Friend. 52 Ancestors, Week 42: Friends.

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.

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