SUGAR GROVE, ILLINOIS – Sugar Grove is small. Although close to Chicago, among the far west side suburbs, the town hasn’t been overrun with development. But “progress” keeps edging closer and closer. I have an interest in the place because it’s where Morgan Reynolds married Hannah Tallman in March of 1850. They’re my great-great-great grandparents, [...]
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Sugar Grove Meets Progress
Posted: August 8, 2011 in Illinois, REYNOLDS, TALLMANTags: Genealogy, Illinois, Pop Culture
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Kane County, Illinois, just west of Chicago, is a place of interest to me because a few ancestors lived there. (My great-great-great grandparents Morgan Reynolds and Hannah Tallman were married in Sugar Grove Township in 1850.) While the following news story doesn’t have any genealogical value, I am growing increasingly concerned about civil liberties and the [...]
Family Name History
Posted: October 2, 2010 in BELOW, BOAL, CHITTY, CONNER, DARLING, DOTY, GEORGE, GOODELL, HAY, HILL, NEAL, NORTHROP, NORTHRUP, PARKER, RADDE, REYNOLDS, SHANNON, Surnames, TIDD, VAN NOTE, WALKERI came across a Family Name History feature at a site called nameLab, so I decided to lookup a few surnames. VAN NOTE Americanized spelling of Dutch Van (der) Not, a habitational name for someone from a place called Ter Noot, for example one in French Flanders. VAN OORT 1. Dutch: habitational name from any [...]
Years back, while working to find the parents of my ancestor Morgan Reynolds, I came across the name John Walker. He was listed simply as a relative, nothing more. I found this reference at FamilySearch.org. Then I discovered his parents were Daniel Reynolds and Olive Walker. Eventually this led me to a long-established family in [...]
