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Abial Preston
I wrote about Abial Preston back in early 2024 HERE. A brief synopsis is Abial is my 6X great grandfather. He is also a proven DAR patriot. I have been using DNA and Ancestry and thru lines to document him. The reason Abial is so important to me is he would be a patriot on Continue reading
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52 Ancestors – Week 8- Migration
Yes I am way behind again and I always have good intentions but then life lifes. Migration is an interesting topic and I think for this one I am going to talk a bit about Benjamin Wood Larkin, my 3X great-grandfather. He is the father of my beloved Sarah Larkin Beardsley. Benjamin was born c. Continue reading
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52 Ancestors – Week 7 – Letters and Diaries.
In this weeks prompt from Amy Johnson Crow, she asks us “Not much beats finding a letter or diary written by an ancestor. Do you have any in your family? Who wrote them? If you don’t have any letters or diaries, which ancestor do you wish had left some?” We don’t have many things like Continue reading
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52 Ancestors – Week 6 – Surprise.
This week our prompt is Surprise. This is what Amy gave us as a starting point. “What ancestor dealt with a surprising thing in their life? Any stories of surprise birthday parties? How about the most surprising thing you’ve found or something in a surprising place?“ I decided to go a slightly different direction. This Continue reading
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52 Ancestors – Week 5 – Challenge
This week’s prompt from Amy Johnson Crow is Challenge and she prompts us with the following questions; “Which ancestor has been challenging to research? What ancestor faced an enormous challenge?” There are so many ancestors, that I feel stuck on right now. I have felt so stuck that I asked my mom to dig out Continue reading
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52 Ancestors – Week 4 – Overlooked
This week’s prompt is an interesting one, it is about a relative we may have overlooked researching or not done in depth research on. It could even be people we feel that we are the only one researching. I have several people I could of chosen for this one but I am going to focus Continue reading
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52 Ancestors – Week 3 – Nicknames
Nicknames, I don’t really have to many things to say about them. Probably because I have never had a nickname. There really isn’t a nickname for Chiara (believe me I know and my oldest reminds me of it). Probably why my youngest is named Samantha and we call her Sami. I do have 2 relatives Continue reading
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The stories we lose…
I have been doing a lot of family history research this week. I am trying to come up with a research question I want to do for a 14 day challenge being hosted in one of my groups. One reason I am trying to be more consistent is it has been weighing on my mind Continue reading
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52 Ancestors – Week 2 – Favorite Photo
Here we are at week 2 and I am actually writing the prompt on the day I received the email. That is a good sign. I happen to love this prompt and I was originally going to write about Gs family but I did that last year and then I remembered when we were in Continue reading
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52 Ancestors – Week 1 – In the Beginning
Happy New Year. Here I am trying to give this yet another shot. Prompt 1 is about how your genealogy journey started. My journey with family history started about 40 years ago. I honestly can’t believe I just wrote this and I know you all are now picturing an old lady but alas no. I Continue reading
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