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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Solving the Kearney mystery, how refugees from Northern Ireland settled in the heartland of Illinois
My maternal grandfather’s grandmother was Mary Kearney. She married Patrick Carroll in La Salle, Illinois in 1866 when she was 20 years old. Her married name then, was Mary Carroll, the same as my own mother’s given name. But finding her origins has been a bit of a journey. Mary and Patrick’s son, John T……
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Emma Fogle Reynolds
I have been trying to find the origins of my 3x great grandmother, Emma Reynolds since I joined ancestry . com. My cousin had put together a tree that I copied back when I first started my tree, but after a bit of digging it became clear the parentage of Emma wasn’t set. We knew……
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Nannie Hendricks
16 October was the 150th birthday of my 2x great grandmother, Nancy Taylor Hatton Hendricks. Nancy was born in Crooked Creek (Rice Station) Estill County, Kentucky in 1875, daughter of Junie and Cynthia Hendricks Hatton. Junie was a farmer, born in Estill County. Cynthia’s only sister was named Nancy and she died at the age……