Sharing ancestors, one person at a time. Genealogy and history.
Welp…I made it to week 4 and flopped! So, to catch up… Week 5 - Challenge Boy am I challenged to keep up the writing. I have been banging my head on two lines, Tucker and DeJean. I don’t know how long my stubbornness will last before I throw my hands in the air and … Continue reading Weeks 5 – 9 – Challenge and More
I was perusing the musings of other family bloggers and came across one post on Chiddicks Family Tree by Paul Chiddicks about the “Sixteen Challenge”. This challenge is to name all 16 of your 2x great-grandparents. When I started out on this little blog project several years ago, I tried to write about each ancestor from youngest to … Continue reading Thankful for Ideas – Rhoades 2x greats
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
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