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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]