Ancestors talk, but sometimes they’re hard to hear
[There is more and updated information in: Armstrong, Johnna, “The Many Wives of Evert B. Delanoy, Rogue: Revelations in a Civil War Widow’s Pension Application File.” The New York Genealogical … Continue Reading →
There are a bunch of us genealogists researching John Zufelt Hudson, and we would all like to know who his parents were. We all have the same piece of evidence, … Continue Reading →
The youngest daughter of William Armstrong, named Catherine and called Kate, Katie and perhaps Kitty (that last may have been a mistake on the part of a census taker), spent … Continue Reading →
A very happy birthday to my great-grandfather, David Chapman, who would have been 120 today. I wish I could have met him, but he died before I was born. In … Continue Reading →
For more than 40 years of her life (1862-1902), Ellen (Armstrong) Holt lived in South Hamilton, in Madison County, New York. Although a mostly residential area now, it was at … Continue Reading →
Glen R. Nye, who compiled Button Families of America, 1971, records Horace Button as having been born about 1822 in Trenton or Barneveld, Oneida County, New York; however the book … Continue Reading →
Grace Anne Mathewson was born 9 June 1870 in Camillus, Onondaga County, New York, according to family records.[1] Her parents were John and Matilda (Hudson) Mathewson,[2] and Gracie was one … Continue Reading →
Frederick Adelbert Berean was born about 1862 in Cortland County, New York, to Elijah and Tabitha Berean.[1] Fred was the penultimate of ten children, and his parents were already in … Continue Reading →
Arthur Crawford Phillips was born on 8 May 1897, in the city of Rochester, located in Monroe County, New York. His parents, Fred and Allie (Cartman) Phillips, were recent transplants … Continue Reading →