Category: Genealogy

Remembering Our Ancestors: Elisabeth Case

By Anne on November 29, 2019November 29, 2019

Today we remember our 9th (and 10th) great-grandmother Elizabeth in the Snyder line, who was baptized this week 363 years ago in New Amsterdam, but who lived her life on the frontier.

Posted in: 17th century early settlement, Chidester Family, Colonial America, early American History, Family, Hartford CT, John Case, pioneer life, Simsbury CT, Snyder Family, William Spencer

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Remembering Our Ancestors: Isaac Hedges Jr.

By Anne on November 22, 2019November 21, 2019

Today we remember our 8th (and 9th) great-grandfather Isaac Hedges Jr., who passed on today 293 years ago.

Posted in: 17th century early settlement, Denney family, early American History, Family History, Hedges line, Lion Gardiner, Mulford family, photography

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Remembering Our Ancestors: Sir William and Alice Harris

By Anne on November 15, 2019November 15, 2019

This week we remember our 11th (and 12th) great-grandparents Sir William Harris I and his wife Alice Smythe.

Posted in: Captain Thomas Harris, Denney family, English history, Family, Family History, Genealogy, Harris family, Mulford family, Tudor person, Virginia, Virginia Company

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Remembering Our Ancestors: William Snider

By Anne on November 8, 2019November 7, 2019

This week in 1836, our 3rd and 4th Great-Grandfather Snyder was born. Happy 183rd Birthday, Grandpa William!

Posted in: Christman family, Family, Family History, Genealogy, Snider Farm Cemetery, Snyder Family

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Remembering Our Ancestors: Anna von Hinten

By Anne on November 1, 2019November 1, 2019

It would have been our (great-)grandmother 105th birthday this week.

Posted in: Bücker family, Black Madonna, Częstochowa, Danzig, Faith, Family, Genealogy, German history, Germany, Poland, von Hinten family, WWI, WWII