at-DNA suggests that James McLeland (1772 North Carolina – 1847 Indiana) and Mary McLeland (1770 North Carolina – 1842 Indiana, married to Richard Wharton 1793 Kentucky) are siblings. There are
Airy Gaither – Airy Prather – Airy Hilton – Airy Swartz: where did this unusual name come from?
Airy Swartz was born about 1815, in Clark County Indiana, to newly weds John Swartz and Nancy Prather.1 Throughout her long life the census takers would have problems with her
Who Are All These People?
The family of Henry W. and Elizabeth (Fuchs) Brack, Otis Kansas, 1947. On the front porch of Henry and Elizabeth’s “town” house. digital image, original in the possession of the
William Decker? I have some questions for you but first a bit about Edith Rebecca McCauley
Occasionally, I am asked which ancestor I would most like to sit down and talk with. That’s a complicated question. The relative I am most fascinated by is not actually
Mary Etta Hamilton Gould – Go West Young Woman
Mary Etta Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton and Mary Pray, was born in the small town of Lisbon, Maine in 18201 shortly after Maine became a state. She married
Ann Adams Gould daughter of Thomas Adams and Sarah Tarr – or not?
Quite early in my genealogical research journey I developed a hypothesis that Ann Adams, who married Moses Gould and who was the mother of my great grandfather Joseph Gould, was
Unexpected hospitalization slows down the writing
Well, I had set myself a goal of writing and publishing something on this blog every 2 weeks. And then I ended up in the hospital for a couple of
Deed reveals names of the orphaned grandchildren of Charles Overman and Mary ?
On the 25th of November 1842, the heirs of Charles Overman, late of Clark County, Indiana, created a deed transferring ownership of a piece of land back to Tamar Overman.1
William Prather – a reputation posthumously trashed
William Prather ( 1766 – 1853) was a schoolteacher in Virginia and possibly North Carolina1, a pioneering landowner of Clark County, Indiana2 and a farmer and probate Judge of Jennings
Keeping up with the Jones – factually
Among many other papers I inherited from my grandfather, Roy Whitman McLeland (1894-1977) is a typescript of an early version of the “Whitman Family History as of Sept 2, 1983”