Today I met a cousin of mine. We met at the Seattle Public Library. Although we had originally planned to meet on the University of Washington campus, I happened to be downtown for a morning meeting, so we met up on the ninth floor of the spacious central library. The main genealogy collection is on [...]
Archive for the ‘Ohio’ Category
This morning I received two messages from separate Hill researchers, asking about DNA. This is odd, because I rarely receive any mail about it. One of the men said that I had written to him in January of 2007. His earliest known Hill is a James Hill who married Armonda McGrea in 1839 in Butler [...]
Today I found some links I’d never known about before. A woman sent a query to the DAR, which was subseqently published in the DAR magazine, in the March 1986 issue. MARVIN-RANDALL-TIDD: David Randall, 1765-1835, is son of David Randall, 1742-1820 and wife Sarah Ann Marvin, Dec 1748-1822 Kinsman, OH; she dau. of Samuel John Marvin [...]
William Tidd’s File at the National Archives
Posted: January 31, 2012 in American Revolution, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, TIDD, United StatesEvery since finding my great-great-great-great-great-great-great uncle’s Revolutionary War pension file on Footnote.com a few years back, I have been meaning to get a hold of it again and then put it somewhere easily accessible. I don’t mean a hard copy, but a digital one. Unfortunately, the document — a Revolutionary War pension file — apparently is only available [...]
I finally got my first hit on “Martin Tidd” as a search phrase for one of my many Google Alerts. Martin is mentioned in a post on a blog about Kinsman, Ohio, where he lived for many years. He is buried in the Old Kinsman Cemetery, although the marker for his grave may be lost. He [...]
In looking though old email messages I found this one on a possible lead on my Hill ancestors while they lived in Pennsylvania. I haven’t been able to confirm any of it nor to dispute the theory, though I do think it’s a long shot at best. But then, when it comes to genealogy and [...]
I remembering reading on an ancestor’s land grant that a government office was located in Bucyrus, Ohio. Seeing a link to the Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum brought back some memories of a great website. It’s free and operated by the BLM, the Bureau of Land Management. It was known as the General Land Office (GLO). As the successor agency to [...]
Four generations of one family have celebrated a golden wedding anniversary on the same homestead, now 133-years-old. ajh
Today in 1803, Congress voted to accept Ohio‘s borders and constitution, although it did not become a state until March 1. I have lots of family connections to Ohio. It seems most branches were there at some point. AJH
The San Antonio Express-News recently received an interesting letter about postcards from a reader. An 89-year-year old friend and I have collected postcards over the years. I collected picture postcards of all varieties, while he collected mostly postcards issued by the U.S. Postal Service. He . . . gave his entire collection to me about a [...]
