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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Captain David Starr
Recently at the retirement activity center there was a display for Daughter’s of the American Revolution which got me thinking about my 6x great grandfather in the Starr line, Captain David Starr. David Starr was the only son of Thankful Griswold Starr and Thomas Starr, born 21 Mar 1738 in Salisbury, Connecticut. This is the……
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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……