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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The Easley Line- French Huguenot Refugees
My 10x great grandfather, Robert Easley Sr was born about 1655 in England. He came with his father, Henry, to London from France after the St. Bartholomew Massacre had made France unsafe for Protestants. It’s believed other branches of the family went to Switzerland where they were silk merchants (there called Islyn). His grandfather, Claude……
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US Presidents in my Family Tree
By connecting your family tree to the giant family tree on Family Search . com you can see how you’re related to all sorts of famous people from history. Some of the connections are iffy, but I found several that seem likely, including more than 2 dozen US presidents: Twenty one are via the Starr……
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Happy Birthday John Howard Carroll
My maternal grandfather, John Howard Carroll was born on this date in 1915, 110 years ago December 13th. He was born in Peoria, to 18 year old Ruth Taylor. Ruth had married his father, Patrick Carroll, a soldier home on leave, but found out too late he was already married to someone else. Ruth put……