Tag Archives: Genealogy

The State of the …..

Posted on July 10, 2024 by Pat Shaul

I was stunned by the latest newsletter from one of my family lineage societies that arrived this week. The Welles Family Association is on the verge of collapse. The following is what I wrote to the President and Editor of … Continue reading →

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My Bad

Posted on June 20, 2024 by Pat Shaul

And since the last posting, I have spent a number of hours disproving that my 4th great-grandfather was from Londonderry, Ireland. Instead, I have reinstated his secondary title “Brick Wall”. My original research indicated that he lived in Pennsylvania and … Continue reading →

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More Flashing Bright Objects, plus other stuff

Posted on June 12, 2024 by Pat Shaul

I was looking at my daily notications from my genealogy app and noticed that yesterday (June 11) was the birthday of two of my 4th great-grandfathers: Simeon Botsford was born at Derby, New Haven, Connecticut in 1763; Laban Jenks was … Continue reading →

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May 2024 – a month of discovery and appreciation

Posted on May 29, 2024 by Pat Shaul

I freely admit to being a member of the Baby Boom generation (aka a Boomer), my childhood was in the 1950s and 1960s with the bulk of my education being in the 1960s. I thought I was awake during my … Continue reading →

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Lost in the Rabbit Hole of DNA

Posted on May 22, 2024 by Pat Shaul

I seem to be lost in trying to connect my DNA matches (Ancestry, MyHeritage, 23andMe) to my documentation on my genealogy database. As of today, I have 51,308 matches on Ancestry, 5,000 matches on 23andMe, 5,701 matches on FamilyTreeDNA, and … Continue reading →

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Holy Crow, I’m Related to George Washington!

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Pat Shaul

In the latest update from FamilySearch.org (not an advertisement from Ancestry), I have received notice of various Famous Relatives. George Washington is my seventh cousin, six times removed! I do have more confidence in The Church of Jesus Christ of … Continue reading →

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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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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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