Monthly Archives: June 2023

You never know what you will find

Posted on June 28, 2023 by Pat Shaul

I was killing time after researching on HaithiTrust for a couple of projects when I just decided to just look what I could find on some of my wife’s family names. I looked for Beggs, her grandmother’s surname and found … Continue reading →

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Where’s Baltzer Koontz?

Posted on June 26, 2023 by Pat Shaul

My grandmother defined the structure of her Koontz lineage from her father, C.P., to her grandfather, Ezra Peter, to her great-grandfather Peter who married Gertrude Derr. Well, I have since found that GGGG Grandfather Peter Koontz may have been called … Continue reading →

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The devil is in the details

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Pat Shaul

I was busy working on the Hotchkiss, Lee, Munn, Tilden project today, copying the text information into my database and proofreading the earlier information that I had recorded. I got to a part of the text where the author listed … Continue reading →

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Another great story found.

Posted on June 18, 2023 by Pat Shaul

While wandering back through my Munn line that I was updating from an 1914 text, I was looking at my 7 timed great-grandfather, Benjamin Munn (1683-1774) and found reference to his wife, my 7 times great-grandmother, Thankful Nims and her … Continue reading →

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They cut the cable, so might as well process the papers on my desk.

Posted on June 17, 2023 by Pat Shaul

Yesterday, the crew that was installing a fence at our next-door neighbors’ hit the cable while drilling a fence post. No internet, no tv, no phone. Every time we went online to check email, it ate up our cell phone … Continue reading →

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