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Well, just letting everyone know the blog may not get updated for awhile. I live in New Orleans and have to get out of town due to Gustav, so might not be doing much on here geneaology wise for awhile. Stay tuned tho, ’cause we’ll be back soon!!!
Soooo…..you know how you’ve been just coasting along every little bit of evidence and all the documents lining up perfectly and then you find one little piece that just messes the whole thing up?
Yep, there’s a a few errors out there about our family. Some pretty understandable, some transcription erros and some just bad speculation. I’ll occasionally post a few on here to help me (and maybe you) keep track. Otherwise I find myself going back and cleaning up the same misinformation time after time. [...]
Okay, I’m stumped. : (
I’m still fairly sure that Oliver Perry Whitney’s mother Ruth is somehow connected to the Light Family in Clermont Ohio in 1850. But, I can’t prove a link. There’s a Peter and Hepsibeth (Whitney) Light living there. There’s a James and a David Whitney the right ages [...]
Checking out how the PDF reports might be used on here. This should link the page for Floyd Tyson’s parents. Click the link below to see!
floyd-tyson-parents-report
So yeah, lots of the links out there aren’t very useful, they’re never updated, have little to no info, or just for whatever reason aren’t helpful.
I figured I’d toss out some I actually have found useful.
Here’s a little google map showing the Moser’s traveling thru the country! It needs some work. You have to click on the blue labels to get the info to show up, I’d rather it popped up when you hovered over it. Also, maybe different colors, but still it’s helpful in seeing where [...]
William is the great grandfather of Mildred Armstead — from a bio in Cutler’s Kansas.
WILLIAM ARMSTEAD, farmer and stock-raiser, Section 11, P. O. Valley Falls. This popular gentleman is a native of England, and was born in Yorkshire, in 1805. In 1850 he came to the United States, locating in Virginia, and afterward [...]
Here’s some biographical info on Benjamin Johnson –
Ella Johnson Blagg’s grandfather — I can’t remember where I found it on the web, but I’ll put a link to the site when I locate it again!! It’s quite detailed and offers info on several ancestors. Here’s the original!
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN JOHNSON
WASHINGTON CO, AR – [...]
Much thanks to Phelps County Phelps Helps newsletters and the book “Happy as a Big Sunflower” about life in early Phelps County. This book has several other brief mentions about our family, like descriptions of Joe Galladay’s speaking style, Josephine Moser Steward’s husband’s card playing, and Jacob and Sam Moser too!!
Several families including the [...]
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