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My Civil War Ancestors

In recent posts, I've been in an analysis rather than research mode.  First came a summary of ten years of discoveries and breakthroughs.  (Read here.)  Then I posted a series of three articles about the occupations of my ancestors.  (Read…

Ancestors by Occupation III

This is the last in a series of three posts about my ancestor's occupations.  See the first two here and here. In a nutshell, my ancestors were mainly merchants, bankers, doctors, scientists, teachers, clergy, local public officials, and…

Ancestors by Occupation II

In the previous post, I introduced occupational family trees and displayed two charts, one for my Dad's tree and one for Mom's.  (See the post here.) In this post, I will identify the most common occupational fields of my ancestors.  To…
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Ancestors by Occupation I

Family trees come in all forms and styles.  In addition to the traditional chart that identifies ancestors by name, one can also create tree diagrams emphasizing a particular aspect or feature of one's ancestors.  Genetic trees, for example,…
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My Pilgrim Ancestors

My son Peter gave me a book for Christmas that I really enjoyed - They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty.  It's a new history of Plymouth Colony by John G. Turner, a professor of religion at George…

Ten Years of Discoveries

I feel like it's time to step back and reassess.  I began building a family tree over a decade ago.  In January 2011, I joined Ancestry.com at the suggestion of a buddy at work, Ray Thomas - a fellow Ohioan like my father.  I was immediately…
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The Thoughts of Our Ancestors

There are many reasons why I like genealogy.  I should do a blog post on the subject someday. But, certainly, one reason is to get to know you're progenitors more personally.  What did they look like?  What kind of personalities did they…

Suggested Boy’s Names from our Family Tree

Following on the previous post, here are seven suggested boy's names from our family tree: Henry Nelson Peter Lars David Thomas Stephen HENRY - This is a great example of how genealogy can illustrate an ancient…

Suggested Girl’s Names from our Family Tree

I sometimes think about which baby names would be meaningful from our family history.  So this post is primarily addressed to younger family members as well as any future family who are thinking about names for their babies.  This was prompted…
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Display Your Ancestry Over the Fireplace!

There are lots of ways to display your family tree, but here's one I bet you never heard of.  My father, Nelson Jonnes, had the idea 20 years ago to create a fireplace mantel that displayed the key surnames in his ancestry.  He asked his good…