Having gone down the rabbit hole that is ancestry.com over the last year I have accumulated a mountain of information about those that came before me. This is where all that information will be shared.
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Bride Brook
Once Upon a Time… (roughly late 1646 or early 1647) in a land far far away… (roughly East Lyme Connecticut, USA) my 10x great grandparents were married across a brook that separated Massachusetts from Connecticut. In researching my Bingham family line I found this fun story about my 10x great grandparents. They lived in Saybrook,…
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My 30x great grandfather, Brian mac Cennétig aka Brian Boru
While adding my tree to Wikitree I found an interesting assertion, according to the research on that site, my 30x great grandfather was the High King of Ireland known as Brian Boru. The path back to this Irish High King from the 11th century is on my Dad’s side. More specifically, My Dad’s grandmother, Ina…
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Alpheus Finch
108 years ago today, on 13 July 1918, Chris’s 2x great grandfather, Alpheus Finch died in Sheffield, Iowa. Al to Chris Al was born 11 January, 1856 in Union Center, Broome County, New York, but his father, Rufus brought him to Northwood, Iowa by 1873. There he married Jeannette “Nettie” Mitchell. Al worked in construction,…