Tina Belle Greenwood, a tough universalist (52 Ancestors #3)
My great-grandma, Tina Belle (Greenwood) Cook, was just over 101 years old when she died in 1993. I was 13 at the time, and it was the first death in … Continue reading
Tracking ancestors for your X-DNA inheritance
My project the last couple of days has been to fill out and color-code some genealogy charts that pick out my potential X-chromosome ancestors, and X-chromosome ancestors for some of … Continue reading
Phillip Berlandi, a German who died at Gettysburg
Here’s the story of someone that history forgot – a man born in the Palatinate and died at Gettysburg. He left no children, no wife, and his last months on … Continue reading
“Schizophrenia” and My Great Grandmother
This is my Great Grandmother. Her name was Cora Moorehead. She was born October 14, 1896 in Hanover, Illinois – a tiny town southwest of Galena, which is in … Continue reading
Johann George Scherwitz and the family farm (52 Ancestors #5)
If there is any farm in my family history that qualifies as the “family farm” to me, it is the Scherwitz farm in rural Jefferson County, Wisconsin. My grandfather was … Continue reading
My Mecklenburgian grandmother Sophia Christina Carolina Allwardt (52 Ancestors #4)
On August 4th, 1834, Sophia Christina Caroline Allwardt, my 3rd-great-grandmother on my mother’s mother’s side, was born in the rural community of Vorder Bollhagen, in the Steffenshagen Parish of Bad … Continue reading
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