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 Greenes of Rhode Island
My 9x great grandfather was once the Deputy Governor of Rhode Island colony, his great grandson went on to be the second governor of the state of Rhode Island, serving during the American Revolution, from 4 May 1778 to 3 May 1786. Deputy Governor John Greene was born 15 August 1620 in Salisbury County WIltshire…
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Clema Alberta Myers
My paternal grandmother died 39 years ago today, Nov 3 1986 at the age of just 62. She had fought cancer for several years prior to her death. Clema Alberta Myers Starr was the youngest child of Raymond Jasper Myers and Margaret Evelyn Thompson. Born 10 December 1923 in Danville, Illinois, her father Raymond abandoned…
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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…