Tag Archives: Theme: Genealogy By the States

I didn’t think I had any connections to Maryland, but a quick search of events in my database proved me wrong.  I do have some of my own connections, some very distant cousins that I know very little about. And then I saw a name I didn’t recognize at all:  Johann Diel Bohn.  Who is the world is that?  Turns out, it’s on my husband’s side, and perhaps Johann is hubby’s eighth great-grandfather.  I say “perhaps” because this line was pretty much “borrowed” from a tree on Ancestry and I […]

Since my Connecticut family from last week’s post also happens to have ties to Massachusetts, I guess I’ll continue on with more of the story of Gov. John Webster. Even though Gov. John Webster spent most of his New England life in Connecticut, he actually started and ended his journey in Massachusetts.  Many of the derivative sources out there about the Governor or the places he lived, state that he originally settled in Newtown (now Cambridge) or Watertown, sometime between 1630 and 1634.

I have so many Connecticut ancestors, I don’t know where to start!  The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about colonial Connecticut is that I have at least two family members who served as governor for the Colony of Connecticut. First is my 11th great-grandfather, John Webster, who served as governor from 1656 to 1657.  He was also the deputy governor from 1655 to 1656.  Before and after these roles, he served as a magistrate from 1639 to 1655 and from 1657 to 1659.

I don’t have much connection to Georgia, so this week I thought I’d share something that’s a little new to me and talk about the Georgia Genealogical Society.  It’s not that I’d never heard of this society, it’s just that until recently, I didn’t know what they were up to.

When I started this post, I really didn’t know if I had any connections to New Jersey.  A quick search of my database pulled up a few events that occurred in New Jersey, one being the birth of my third great-grandaunt’s husband, Vanrancelar Cash VLIET. (Note:  There are many variations on the spelling of his first name, but this is the one I chose.) According to the book History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut , Vanrancelar was born on 20 March 1829 at Oxford Township […]

Ah, Pennsylvania, that pesky state where two of my great-grandaunts claim to have been born. First, Malissa Elizabeth ROTTMAN, both the 1880 US census and the 1885 Iowa state census state her place of birth as Pennsylvania.1  An index entry in the Iowa marriages database on FamilySearch states Philadelphia as her place of birth2 (no, I have not seen the actual record…ran out of time at the FHL last February).  Yet I have not found a birth record for her in Philadelphia.

The closest I get to Delaware are towns and counties of the same name.  Not one event in my database took place in the state of Delaware.  That being the case, I decided to head over to my Diigo bookmark page for Delaware to see what online resource I could explore.  Until today, there were only two links: one for the Delaware archives and one for the University of Delaware’s digital collection.  I decided to explore the UD digital collections.