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Well, this certainly wasn’t at all what I intended to write about for week #3 of 52 Ancestors, but we’ll let synchronicity have a run here and go with the flow. This amazing mystery has turned from a search for the nameless...

This is a story of a success, a surprise discovery and the hazards of not paying enough attention or making assumptions. Oh to be in Ireland where it’s possible to check the primary records! Photo by Ingo Mehling, 2010. from Wikimedia Commons. THE...

Sophia is the fourth known child of Carl and Sophia (Meinzen) Kropp.  Sophia Meinzen Kropp may be my great-grandfather Henry Carl Meinzen's sister. Sophia is the daughter who immigrated on the same ship as her parents when they came to American in September...

The island of Unst in Shetland was the home of my cousin's paternal ancestors, and this is his story. It begins in Stuart's own words. "When I was young,  growing up in Blackpool, Lancashire, I was intrigued as to the origins of my own full name - Stuart...

and you thought i was finished posting about the irish. nope! that’s why darth is still up there ↑ sipping his guinness! (~_^) however, this will be the second-to-the-last — or penultimate for those of you who like to use fancy, foreign...