If you want an example of a unique combination of given and family names, I would offer Fayetta Salome Flaugh as a good example.Nearly 20 years ago, I attended a meeting of the Computer Assisted Genealogy Group Greater Cleveland (CAGG for short) to learn about genealogy database programs. Several members were demonstrating features of the
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A More Complete Timeline for Grandma Grace
On 15 Dec 2016, I posted a timeline for my Grandma Grace that I found on my computer. I had forgotten that I had created it and discovered it during a search for other timeline documents. Today, I found another document in timeline format about Grace Green Dingman in which I had compiled some additional
Read on »Tracking Down Info on Our First Landlord
My wife MJ and I were talking about our first residence today, and we were trying to remember the details. MJ remembered that we dealt with Mrs. Wirth beginning in the spring of 1960-to about 1965, living at two addresses on Westlake Ave. in Parma, Ohio. We didn’t remember her first name, but MJ did
Read on »52 Ancestors – # 5: General Sherman Bosseller Becomes Sherman Volser
Parents sometimes bestow unusual names on their children, and in some cases the children change or de-emphasize those unusual names later in life. One such example is General Sherman Bosseller, who was born in November 1864, when General William Tecumseh Sherman was conducting the Civil War campaign known as Sherman’s March to the Sea. General
Read on »52 Ancestors – #4: Guy Bradley Dingman of Venango County, Pennsylvania
The subject of this blog post is Guy Bradley Dingman, born 17 Sep 1892 and died 10 Mar 1941. He is my 2nd cousin twice removed. He lived an unremarkable, even sad, life, but tracking down details of his life, using only online resources, was interesting to me as I researched in Venango County, Pennsylvania,
Read on »Ancestor’s Life Recorded in Newspapers
Nelson Dinghman (b 1818-d 1907) was my great great grandfather. When I was growing up, I never heard a word about him, even though he had lived only about 15 miles from my childhood home in Andover, Ohio. Early on in my involvement in genealogy, I looked for information about Nelson and learned that he
Read on »Electronic Version of Cleveland Plain Dealer
The local newspaper, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, has made the move to electronic distribution and cut back on the delivery of printed copies to four days a week: Sunday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday. I still wake up in the morning ready to go out to the end of the driveway and pick up the paper.
Read on »Newspaper Article about a Dog Named Buster Adds Information
One day last week I received a phone call from Carl Feather, a feature writer for the Ashtabula, Ohio, Star Beacon. He was calling at the suggestion of Penny Redmon, my wife’s first cousin once removed, to see if we had a photo of Buster, the beloved pet of my wife’s grandfather, James Van Court.
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