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About Pat Shaul

Genealogist / Family Historian; Blog started as a record of my Grandfather's post card collection which ran for 15 months. Then, in June, 2017, I changed over to reporting and commenting on notifications from the ANCESTRY app "We're Related" I then started to provide snippets into ancestor biographies on the dates that were significant anniversaries.

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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Kettle of fish has turned into a bucket of …

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Pat Shaul

For some reason, I was just surfing on MyHeritage and decided to search for my great-great-great grandfather, Peter Koontz, the father of Ezra Peter Koontz. At least that was the story my grandmother had told me and she did not … Continue reading →

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A Fine Kettle of Fish …

Posted on May 28, 2023 by Pat Shaul

Not really anything fishy, it is just that I am getting dug in deaper and deaper into research projects. I was working on my Hotchkiss, Lee, Munn, Tilden project when I got to the part of the manuscript which is … Continue reading →

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What a great find!

Posted on May 17, 2023 by Pat Shaul

Last night I was at the Farmington (Oakland Co, Michigan) Genealogy Society meeting where I picked up a couple of books offered from the bequest collection of Peter J. Schaldenbrand. See my most recent books tab for the full list. … Continue reading →

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Tea Time?

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Pat Shaul

The New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGR) – has started a new project called Boston Tea Party Participants. I started to look at the entries for known surnames that I was sure would have been in North America at … Continue reading →

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Old, But Still in Use

Posted on April 20, 2023 by Pat Shaul

I have been working on my Hotchkiss, Lee, Munn, Tilden, and Other Related Families project and am now in the process of going back and adding in the author’s text. I had previously gone through the work and built the … Continue reading →

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