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Comment on The Slave Women of Rumford by a genealogist’s sketchbook › serendipity in a basement evidence-room

a genealogist’s sketchbook › serendipity in a basement evidence-room — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:34:43 +0000

[...] of mine settled in the same place 300 years ago! My next task is to locate his gravestone, in the Newman Cemetery where I walked my dog every day for years, without an [...]

Comment on Allin House exterior, 1898 by a genealogist’s sketchbook › serendipity in a basement evidence-room

a genealogist’s sketchbook › serendipity in a basement evidence-room — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 02:34:26 +0000

[...] of Hundred-Acre Cove, long held by members of the Allen family — not the Allin family who built my farmhouse in West Barrington. I had presumed the house belonged to a branch of descendants of John Allen of Swansea (d. 1683), [...]

Comment on a past ‘distant and unknown’? — a clipping from the loft by pricegen

pricegen — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 06:47:04 +0000

It’s awesome to find records like this. Thanks for posting!

Comment on new version of Taylor book — now with triplet photos by charles taylor

charles taylor — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:41:45 +0000

My sister and I Karen Ring are interested in more about our Grandfather Jennnings L. Taylor and Great Grandfather Frank L. Taylor. Our Father was Charles Edward Taylor who passed Jan.8,1964. We have read your revised script and would love to have anymore information you can direct us to about our family. My sisters email is http://www.karenjane81@hotmail.com you can contact both of us. Thank you so much, Charles Taylor

Comment on John Morgan Stanwood of Dogtown: finding ancestors in a novel by Dogtown Descendant « Rebekah Brooks

Dogtown Descendant « Rebekah Brooks — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:18:25 +0000

[...] recently came across this post: John Morgan Stanwood of Dogtown: finding ancestors in a novel on a blog run by Nathaniel Taylor, a descendant of former Dogtown resident John Morgan Stanwood. [...]

Comment on Taylor genealogy updated — marking genetically tested lines in a traditional genealogy by joey066

joey066 — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:59:28 +0000

I really like this; what a great idea. Someday I’ll save up the $$ to do my own DNA test which I’ve wanted to do for many years.

Comment on a living six-generation matriline by joey066

joey066 — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 20:57:47 +0000

This is amazing, since i suspect the number of people who can name their g-g-g-grandmother down the matrilineal line is almost zero, aside from us genealogical-folks.

Comment on William, Jennings & Bryan Taylor, notorious triplets by a genealogist’s sketchbook › new version of Taylor book — now with triplet photos

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:32:01 +0000

[...] been hearing from a steady stream of cousins. Notable among them have been descendants of the media-sensation triplets William9, Jennings9, and Bryan9 Taylor, sons of Frank L.8 Taylor (Joseph W.7, Tarpley6, John [...]

Comment on Simon Taylor’s marriage bond, 1641 by a genealogist’s sketchbook › the triplets — new version of Taylor book

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:21:36 +0000

[...] it into the book — the success of our triangulation of a DNA profile for Simon2 Taylor, and the publication of my article on the possible parents of his father Richard — but I’ve been hearing from a steady stream of cousins. Notable among them have been [...]

Comment on Taylor DNA: 67 markers for Simon2 by a genealogist’s sketchbook › the triplets — new version of Taylor book

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:20:29 +0000

[...] it forever. Notable things in the last two years still haven’t made it into the book — the success of our triangulation of a DNA profile for Simon2 Taylor, and the publication of my article on the possible parents of his father Richard — but I’ve [...]

Comment on visiting the Prudence Island Allins by Nat Taylor

Nat Taylor — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:36:41 +0000

Turns out I got Lyme disease that day.
Drat.
But, still glad we found these Allins.

Comment on update on the Crosbie-Pitcairn pistols by Robert M.

Robert M. — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:04:56 +0000

Just a slightly different, but more accurate, Tale of the Spoils of War for licensed Concord & Lexington Tour Guides like myself to tell. (And yes, I’ve told the “traditonal version” more than several times.) I don’t know the provenance of where the pistols were found after the battles, but as captains usually walked, they should most likely have been on Crosbie’s person.

A great clue-hiding-in-plain-sight example, based on actualling “seeing” and then “reading” an artifact. Thanks again for the quick & thorough follow-through.

Comment on Natalie’s people by Robert M.

Robert M. — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:19:18 +0000

You haven’t pushed the Slocum/Coggeshall lines back yet? Or just not posted their colonial emmigrant names to your migrants list? A Google search got me to The Sturgis Project which takes its Slocum information directly from Dr. Slocum’s 1880s work, without noticing the Jane Fletcher Fiske corrections of the 1980s & 1990s. I haven’t gone to AmAnc to see what Anderson has up in the GM database for either of the couple’s antecedents.

Might as well fill in those holes in your spare time!

Comment on potential Indiana baronet — Stirling of Glorat by Robert M.

Robert M. — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:05:55 +0000

As I recently lived in Stratford CT for 20 months, (but have been familiar with it for far-far-longer), this entry piqued my interest. The Ind. Star link does not now work, of course.

I did a Google search after I found nothing on the subject through the NYT Archives. Google gave me supposed cache links to the Star article but these were simple summaries. A different word search led me to Leigh Raiment’s web-page (leighraiment.com) where, under his baronetage sub-page, I found that he’s recently (7/2011) done an update on Stirling of Glorat–though the information all dates from 1949!

It seems that John C. Stirling, Jr. is not the first Stirling of Indianoplis to consider claiming the title. Raiment excerpts most of The Washington Post article of 1 May 1949 in which JCS’s relation [grandfather?] expresses a disinterest in pursuing the title despite being informed by Debrett’s that he’s the likely claimant. Apparently, according to the 2009 article summary, Debrett’s now lists JCS as the likely claimant. Raiment notes that his sources show no change in the Glorat baronetage status as of 2011.

So, I wonder, what’s the hang-up on these Hoosier Stirlings claiming the title? No property or money? (But according to the 1949 story there was money about which Elizabeth Stirling, the 9th Baronet’s daughter, had some choice words to convey to her “American Cousin”.) Loss of American citizenship? (Apparently not an issue with SCOTTISH titles?) Lack of connecting documents at some point? (Perhaps, but the continuity of the family in Indianapolis seems well established.) Or just what?

Overall, it seems clear that this was never a really “lost” relationship within the Hoosier Stirlings. Just one not paid attention to by the son of the 1949 claimant, and that his son (auctioneer & undertaker) was only now getting around to reconsidering. Nothing on Google since 2009, so the rest of the story…?

Hope he’s found your Royal Descent posting. Nice work.

Comment on Merovingians among us? by Novalis

Novalis — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:03:00 +0000

Thank you for the succinct and appropriate insight into the spurious and scurrilous assertions of such rubbish. These pseudo-historical research fringe groups give the fascinating pursuit of genealogy a thoroughly negative image and should be relegated exclusively to the realm of Dungeons and Dragons.