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Still On the Hunt

Still on the hunt for this granddaughter of Hannah Jane Champion, wife of 2nd great grand uncle John P Peterson

Emma seems to have married twice. I'm not really sure how this works because a social security record comes up for Dorothy Thompson as her parents who died in 2001 They all lived on Marshall Street in Atlantic City New Jersey that's mentioned in the 1920 newspaper article for Mary A Peterson. If Abel Thomas died in 1902, and Emma's son Herbert was born 15 April 1900, and…

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Added by Donna Schultz on October 25, 2021 at 5:21am — No Comments

The Secret Is Out

Last year I shared some of my family tree with a friend. After a few days they sent me an E mail. One sentence stood out. "Did you know that you are a descendant of Don Juan Ponce de Leon, Adelantado de la Florida?"

I was a little surprised then I wrote my friend back. No? Do you have any details?

They sent me a family tree that was documented up to Antonio Maldonado y Nieves married to Dona Manuela Montalvo.

Antonio was born 1795 in Utuado, Puerto Rico.

I sat…

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Added by Ayesart on October 10, 2013 at 6:26pm — No Comments

Who IS John DuBell?

My Great-Grandfather, John DuBell was a colorful man and we are still striving to find the truth of his journey to America!

My grandfather, Alexander “Alec” DuBell was the first generation born in America in his paternal family… his father; John DuBell came here in 1864/69 from The Netherlands. He bought farmland in Franklin Parish, Louisiana and raised a family there.

The stories are:

1. He was “Shanghaied” by a “press gang” in Amsterdam and made to work on a… Continue

Added by Lisa Gilmore Lier on January 28, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

PROBATE GENEALOGIST: You do it for passion why not do it for profit

I have the ability of attending the FGS Conference in Little Rock next week with Probate Genealogist Cathy Decourcy.

It will be a great opportunity to meet other genealogists from around the country and internationally. I created this neat video for the conference. I hope you like it.

www.missingheirfinders.com click on blog

Added by John A. Hoda on August 28, 2009 at 4:00pm — No Comments

The Christiana Resistance Precursor to the Civil War - Christiana Pennsylvania

The Christiana Resistance thought of in some corners as a precursor to the Civil War. It is one of the many events in American History that is not widely known.

"A major episode in African-American history, along with John Brown’s raid, was the Fugitive Slave Rebellion in Christiana. This event was a harbinger of the Civil War. Frederick Douglas referred to the Christiana Riot as “… the battle for liberty.”

On September 11, 1851, Slave owner Edward Gorsuch, his son… Continue

Added by Anita Wills on August 27, 2009 at 1:51pm — No Comments