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William Walton – GeneaStar Reveals an Unusual Relative – 52 Ancestors 2015 #39
I am going back now to pick up the week 39 theme of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. As I mentioned before, I am not doing these in order anymore. It is also unlikely that I will finish this year. That’s okay, I did the challenge last year and I have a lot of other […]
Elizabeth Rudd – Stormy Weather for Quakers – 52 Ancestors 2015 #10
It cannot have been easy in the middle of the 17th century to have been a member of the Society of Friends, more commonly known as the Quakers. The choice to deviate from the mainstream Church of England required courage and conviction, since there was no separation of Church and State. Quakers were openly persecuted […]
David Brown – Plowing Through Brown Fields – 52 Ancestors 2015 #5
David Brown is one of my brick walls. I have almost nothing on this ancestor of my husband’s maternal grandmother; in fact, I think I only have two references to him. Because there is so little to go on, I periodically plow through the early 19th century Browns of Southeastern Pennsylvania. David Brown is supposed […]