Category: Billings
Amelia Billings Starr connects the Billings family to the Starr family.
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Kellogg Ancestors in America
TLDR: My 8x great grandfather, son of an English colonist, was stolen by the French and Indian soldiers, became a successful interpreter and trader , was assigned to one of the first recorded expedition to Illinois by the French, and later was reclaimed by the British, quoted in Royal Society papers, given a commission in…… Read more
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My cousins General Nathanael Greene and Mary Mott
I was watching Ken Burns’ new documentary on the Revolutionary War and they mention and quote General Nathanael Greene quite often. I remembered when previously writing a post about the Greene family of Rhode Island, reading that this General was a descendant of the same family so I decided to add him to my family…… Read more
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US Presidents in my Family Tree
By connecting your family tree to the giant family tree on Family Search . com you can see how you’re related to all sorts of famous people from history. Some of the connections are iffy, but I found several that seem likely, including more than 2 dozen US presidents: Twenty one are via the Starr…… Read more
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July 24/ July 25th Noakes family history
July 24, 1825 is the birthday of my 3x great grandfather, William Noakes. William was the father of Almeda Noakes who married my 2x great grandfather Emory Starr in 1892 in Warren County, Illinois. July 25th is the date in 1789 when his granduncles Ben and William Noakes were killed and grand aunt Elizabeth Noakes…… Read more
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Rabble Rousing Quakers
While researching my 4x great grandfather, Elias Mott I found his middle name, Hicks. Elias Hicks Mott. It seemed like a strange middle name so I did what I always do, I googled it. Turns out Elias Hicks was a rather famous Quaker who some say caused a schism in the church. Elias Hicks, like…… Read more
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Amelia Billings- the start of it all
Amelia Annette Billings was my 3x great grandmother, my paternal grandfather’s father’s father’s mother. We have cabinet photos of her and her family taken around 1890. It was trying to date these photos that inspired me to create a family tree on ancestry.com and so began the project that has brought me to creating this…… Read more