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 Möri’s of Switzerland
The surname Moeri (or Möri) is common in the canton of Bern, Switzerland even today. The canton of Bern began as a city-state way back in 1191 and joined the Swiss Confederacy in 1353. It’s roots go even further back, with the earliest human settlements dated back to the Neolithic period (10,000 BC – 2200……
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Kenneth E. Starr, designer
I came across this photo of my Grandpa Starr today. The photo depicts Grandpa (on the left hand side) standing in front of a machine two stories high in 1971. Dad told me it was a powdered metal press for stamping parts for the various machines they built at Caterpillar Tractor Company. Grandpa (Ken E……
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Adam Shipley of Maryland is My 9th and 10th GGF
Ok this is weird. After researching the family origins of the man who “unlawfully seduced” my 17 year old 3x great grandmother, Laura Byars (see previous post) I followed his mother’s line back two generations to the Shipley’s of Maryland. This rang a bell. On my mother’s side I remembered tracing my Grandma Carroll’s mom’s……