Sharing ancestors, one person at a time. Genealogy and history.
A couple of years ago I wrote “That French Connection, And a Little Drama”. In that post, I tried to track down Rosetta’s daughter, Sadie, and her three boys. I had vowed to let Sadie’s story go as I had no hope of finding out what happened to her given her propensity for fibbing about her age, … Continue reading Sadie’s Sad Demise
While validating some of Calista Emery’s dates and places, I finally made some progress on William W. Emery/Emory, and Hannah Merrifield; the parents of Calista and Carrie Emory Gage. I was musing about the timing of William’s probate filed in 1864. I never did nail down an exact death date and place, I had just … Continue reading William W. Emery – More Questions than Answers
Since I realized after my last post that Emory was also in our X-match gene pool, I took a little detour and gave the Tucker conundrum a rest. This is another line that has always bothered me concerning why we have no hits to Emory cousins. Sure, Caroline (Carrie) Emory Gage only had one known sister, therefore … Continue reading Calista Emory – Rule Breaker
Have a brick wall? Try DNA, they said.DNA will help you get past that mystery of where ancestor so-and-so came from, they said.Nope, no luck. But I am not ready to throw in the towel just yet. As I mentioned in my last post, I am back on the Tucker’s. I am in the midst of methodically triangulating DNA matches … Continue reading Tuckers’ Tangles
Most cultures on this planet are patriarchal societies. Therefore we inherit our surnames from our fathers. No big revelation, I know. Another thing anyone who does family research knows is…it makes researching your patriarchal lines very easy (assuming your 5xgreat grandmother was monogamous!) Then there is the Scandinavian age when they used the patronymic method, … Continue reading Have you ever wondered…
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