The blog includes my research notes, results & interesting methodologies, sources (and the evidence they may contain) and books I find fascinating as well as random genie-historical musings. I am
Property Map confusion resolved and something learned about how these maps were probably created
This detail from the 1875 land ownership map of Clark County, Indiana1 has caused me a bit of confusion lately. In the Utica Township section, specifically in the portion labelled
It is interesting – how research on a family uses different sources over time
I’ve just finished the research on one of the descendant families of the children of John Swartz and Elizabeth Ohlweiler in early Clark County, Indiana – see the articles on
A unique marital pattern?
Reverend George and Nancy (Fry) Swartz/Schwartz had 12 children. The family has a unique marital pattern (or at least one I’ve never run across before) of marrying the widowed in-laws.
Is there a name for this phenomenon?
I’ve spent many years working on the Swartz/Schwartz Family of southeastern Indiana (aka Clark and adjoining counties, including Jefferson County KY really) and Pennsylvania. When John Swartz and Elizabeth Ohlweiler
The will of Benjamin Clifford McLeland – a sad tale but not the full tale
Benjamin Clifford McLeland was the 6th child and 4th son of Thomas Asher McLeland and Caroline Decker. He was the last child born to the couple to survive infancy. (Thomas
It’s “Whitey’s” birthday – Happy Birthday Dad
Today would have been my father’s 94th birthday. I miss him, although I can’t help thinking he would not be pleased with our society today (and I shudder to think
Prather, Gaither, Bennett – a very complicated network of marriage connections
As I continue to think about endogomy vs. multiple lines of descent and the impacts of both/either on my at-DNA match lists I realized I simply couldn’t hold all of