Disconnect – to sever the connection of or between; to decouple. A ten year old kid: Aw dad, I don’t like history. History is just about a bunch of old dead guys…Yes son, but they are your old dead guys… People are disconnected from their family histories. The person that knows the names of all of their great-grandparents is a rarity. Whatever the reason for … Continue reading Revolutionary War Christmas
Knowledge of an ancestor’s participation in historical events can be fascinating. It is not a good thing when participation in those historical events is forgotten, lost or obscured. Stories like the sacrifices that the Seeley’s made to meet the challenges that they encountered in the early settlement of America are in jeopardy of being lost and forgotten. Robert Seeley was born in England on 4 … Continue reading The Fighting Seeleys
Monday July 29, 2024. We departed Port Erie at 10:30 arriving in Ashtabula at 5:00. Winding our way up river and through one drawbridge that opens on the half-hour, we docked at the wall at Ashtabula Yacht Club. The club has recently renovated part of their facility and the wall is renovated. Their new electric hookups had a glitch that was quickly repaired by their … Continue reading Excursion from Port Erie to Put-in-Bay, July – August, 2024
Time and tide wait for no man. What can take you back in time? A machine like the one in the H.G. Wells story? An old familiar song? An old ticket stub? A program from a theatre performance? A photograph of a long lost loved one? Or could it be an actual time machine mechanism? Several Years ago, we picked up our boat at the … Continue reading The Time Machine
As I write this at nightfall on the 4th of July in the harbor at Erie Pennsylvania there is not a second that goes by that is not punctuated with the sound of multiple explosions coming from all directions. The 4th of July is for watermelon and family get-togethers, sparklers, fireworks, flags, parades and comradery. It is for recognizing and remembering those that fought for the establishment … Continue reading 4th of July Musings
Thompson J. Wright, his wife Jane and their family moved from Wolcott N.Y. to Michigan around 1838. Thompson Wright was 44 years old at the time. He probably moved along with his brothers Frederick and Solomon.[1] The 1840 Michigan census notes that Frederick Wright lived in Parma Michigan and Thompson Wright lived in Concord Michigan, contiguous to and south of Parma. The 1840 census locates the … Continue reading Discovering the Wright Family in the Civil War
Alongside the National Highway, also known as Highway 40, in Fayette County Pennsylvania stands a monument marking the grave of General Edward Braddock. Braddock was a British General killed fighting the French and their Indian allies July 9th 1755 at the battle of the Monongahela. Braddock died trying to wrest control of what is now the Pittsburgh area from the French in the first major battle of … Continue reading FORT NECESSITY
WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021 The Boating Genealogists trip to Wethersfield Connecticut was a pilgrimage of sorts. I wrote in my book Discover Your Roots! How I found My North American and Revolutionary War Ancestors that I traced my Wright family ancestry back to Thomas Wright, one of the first settlers of Wethersfield, and several of the Ten Adventurers, Robert Seeley, Nathaniel Foote, Robert Rose, William Swayne, and possibly John … Continue reading A Genealogy Visit to Connecticut During the Waning Days of the Covid Pandemic
Barzillai Ansley, agent for International Steamship Co., one of the multiple businessman Barzillai Ansleys Continue reading Genealogy Gems: Barzillai Ansley Scott
Lee Scott’s obituary states he was born 2 August 1822 in St. John, St. John County, New Brunswick, Canada. There are multiple Ancestry.com family trees connecting Lee Scott with parents Walter C. Robert Scott Esq and Elizabeth Lee and grandparents Robert Scott Esq and Mary Merrill. Nice, but where is the source material that establishes or refutes this lineage? The confirming evidence is hardly a … Continue reading Uncovering Lee Scott’s Lineage
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