Posted by in 52ancestors, Irish Roots, Moran And just like that this post will have caught me up with the prompts for 52 Ancestors and that is making me feel pretty proud. As I work to become a better researcher, I find myself thinking of Context. I find myself thinking of how the pieces fit together between history, social events and family…Read more »
Posted by in 52ancestors, Clinton County, NY, Witherwax This was a rough topic as it reminds me how much of our history has been lost. My Weatherwax family were farmers. My grandparents were dairy farmers and lived in Clinton County, the stopped farming full time around the time I was born. My great-grandfather, Benjamin sold the family farm that had been in the…Read more »
Posted by in 52ancestors, Clinton County, NY, New York Research, Witherwax I will be totally honest here until the past week or so I really did not use many maps in my research. I have recently fell in love with Locality Guides and part of creating a Locality Guide is to show different sources. Since a lot of my research is in Essex County, NY aka…Read more »
Posted by in 52ancestors, DNA When I saw this prompt I wasn’t sure what I wanted to write about, then it hit me I would talk a bit about my quest into the world of DNA. As I have wrote in the past I am one of the least sciencey (yes I made this word up), people I know. I…Read more »
Posted by in 52ancestors, Beardsley, Witherwax Back to catching up again. We all make mistakes. Life happens but sometimes we need to ask ourselves can this really be true. There are a couple of men in my family tree that drive me absolutely batty. The first one is Beverly Beardsley, see Beverley Beardsley number one was born in approximately 1775 and…Read more »
Posted by in Clinton County, NY, Stewart, Witherwax 79 years ago, two of the most important people in my life, my Grandma and Grandpa were married. They married in Schuyler Falls when my Grandpa was 30 and my Grandma was 18. They were married for over 60 years until my Grandpa died in 2001. courtesy of New York Historical Newspapers. Appeared in the…Read more »
Posted by in Daughters of the American Revolution, New York Research, Rabbitholes, Stewart I have done a deep dive into the world of genetic genealogy and spent a huge amount of the past weekend messaging matches and hoping for responses. Low and behold one of those responses led me down a path tonight. It didn’t take me too long to figure out whee she belonged in my tree…Read more »
