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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.

It has been a busy winter.

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Pat Shaul

What can I say? I have been overwhelmed with researching my two big projects [“Who Was Warham Lee?” and “Hotchkiss, Lee, Munn, Tilden and Other Related Families”] and tracing my DNA matches to see how we really connect. Of the … Continue reading →

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Going back to review

Posted on December 8, 2023 by Pat Shaul

I was working on my Who Was Warham Lee? reseach, when I went back to the very beginning to review what I had as it reflected on what I now knew. Each item started a new revelation. The first map, … Continue reading →

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The details are in the details ….

Posted on December 2, 2023 by Pat Shaul

Evidence has been collected, logged, and flagged for the key pieces to zero back to cite. Now the real work begins, entering the information with the proper citation of where the information originated. Working on all four projects in rotation. … Continue reading →

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And now the WORK begins ….

Posted on September 10, 2023 by Pat Shaul

Having spent a great deal of time and effort on researching the Hotchkiss, Lee, Munn, Tilden and Other Related Families manuscript, it is time to begin the actual merging of information. It took almost 4 months of research and reading … Continue reading →

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The learning continues …

Posted on August 20, 2023 by Pat Shaul

I was so gratified when I found the sources referenced in the transcription that I and currently immersed in completing either in my personal library or by searching haithitrust.org. Then I ran into a number of sources that I could … Continue reading →

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A new acquisition for my library

Posted on July 23, 2023 by Pat Shaul

Biographies of Original Members and Qualifying Officers – Society of the Cincinnati in the State of Connecticut, J. Michael Phelps, ed. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2023. This is a three-volume set. The Society of the Cincinnati was formed … Continue reading →

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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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