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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January 30, the day of the birth of my Grandma and the day of the death of her Grandma
Today would have been Grandma Carroll’s 108th birthday. It’s easy math for me as she was 50 years and 5 days older than me. It’s also the anniversary of her grandma’s death. My 2x great grandma, Nancy Hendricks, died on this day in 1967, one year before I was born. I’ve written a few different……
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The Webster line- A Famous Dictionary and Half-Hanged Witch
My great grandmother, Ina Holden Starr’s mother was Grace Mabel Webster, born in 1873. I had been told she descended from the same Websters that we all know from the dictionary, Noah Webster, so I wanted to confirm this with my own tree. I traced the Webster line back to my 14x great grandfather, John……
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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……