Tag Archive | Brown County Ohio
Anton Stephan – Following Bunches of Hunches – 52 Ancestors 2015 #30
This week the optional theme for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is “Challenging.” I guess that is one of the things that I enjoy about genealogy – the challenges. Truly, it wouldn’t be any fun for me if the ancestor quest didn’t include endless mysteries to be solved. Sometimes family history is intuitive and, even, […]
Peter Elsasser of Vicksburg, Mississippi – Are You the Same as My Great, Great Granduncle? 52 Ancestors 2015 #12
This week I am chronicling the search for my great-grandmother’s Bavarian family. This is a long read with a lot of detail on the resources that I drew upon to find the place of origin for my mother’s mother’s mother’s family. I am especially interested because this is the source of my mitochondrial DNA (deep […]