My Genealogy Journey!

 

I started doing genealogy many years ago.  At first it was just some mysteries that intrigued me. Then I became hooked like many others. Today I do research almost daily.   However, I often focus on someone else’s mystery.  So, I don’t make as much progress on my own family as I would like.

 

My passion is for people’s stories, but I am also careful not to create too much of their story myself.  Putting together pieces of the puzzle logically and filling in the blanks without too many assumptions can be a challenge.  Sometimes it is a logic puzzle that needs to be solved, sometimes it requires studying history, sometimes you have to take a fresh look at everythings, and sometimes it requires challenging what everyone else believes.

 

Recent Blog Highlights

Hanson McCracken Peelle Pellett

A Pellett Journey

Having joined the Society of Friends, Francis Pellett, like many other Quakers, decided to go to America where religious freedom was said to exist.  When he left Ireland, he knew where he has headed, but he had no idea that...
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Ashby Pellett

A War Years Letter

I try to salvage every letter and diary from family as you never know what family history may be in them.  So, when the topic of letters and diaries came up, I went to a container of letters that I...
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McGinley Stetler

Astonished!

I was astonished when I saw a newspaper article from the early 1800s about Rod’s 5th great grandmother, Ann (McGinley) Stetler, having breast cancer.  The surprise wasn’t that she had breast cancer, but that it was mentioned in the newspaper....
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