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Viscount Horatio Nelson (1758-1805)
Thomas Nelson (1802-1875)
Pamelia Allison Nelson (1807-1883)
Photo Album: Nelson
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General (black or darker blue)NEW 4/15/21: Do You Have Irish Genealogy?
NEW 4/14/21: Cousins’ Corner: Brodieheg, the Blogger
NEW 4/2/21: Writing Your Own Family Narrative: A Short Bibliography
NEW 4/1/21: Memories of Uncle Carl Raymond Hill & Family
NEW 3/31/21: A Family History Book Review
NEW 3/30/21: Family Names in Churchhill’s Historical Anthology
NEW 3/11/21: The Life of Dowling Norris (1823-1858)
NEW 3/10/21: Life Stories from the Hill Family: Mayme Crummy & Myra Miller
NEW 3/6/21: Deaths in the Charles Krause Family – 2021
NEW 3/5/21: The Pearces of Wiltshire: The Way They Talked
NEW & REVISED 2/25/21: WWII Letters from Home: Dick & Hilda Miller & Family (in 3 parts)
NEW 2/21/21: How Closely Related are the English and the Irish?
NEW 2/20/21: The Ten Oldest Amish Settlements, by Erik Wesner
NEW 2/4/21: Before, During, & After the World Wars: Moon-Hill Family Letters & Cards, Parts I , II, III, IV, & V
REVISED 1/31/21: Five Short Moon-Davis Family Letters from the 1920s
REVISED 1/30/21: From Tragedy to Triumph: The Hazel (Hill) & Alex Nicely Family Story
NEW 1/27/21: Reunions of the Joseph & Alice (Moon) Families: 1960-1968
NEW 1/26/21: Deaths in the Charles Krause Family – 2020
NEW 1/23/21: Our Pearce Families Come to America: A Four-Centuries Celebration, 1620-2021
NEW 1/18/21: The Life & Times of Ralph & Rachel Krause
NEW 1/15/21: Biking into History on the Great Allegheny Passage
NEW 1/13/21: The 4 Capt. John Dixon Hill & Sons’ Farms of Butler & Allegheny Counties, PA
REVISED 1/12/21: Our Nonconformist Pearceses & The Rev. John Wesley
NEW 12/25/20: Susan & Larry Pearce Celebrate 50 Years Together
REVISED 12/7/20 (with personal note from Dr. Cyril Wecht):Our Moon Family Morticians: Joseph Daniel & Son
NEW 10/26/20: Three Generations of Gray Family Handiworks
NEW 9/29/20: Krause Electric & Refrigeration Changes Hands
NEW 9/25/20: Scottish Naming Practices
NEW 9/4/20: 21 Questions to Ask Your Parents (while they’re still here)
NEW 9/3/20: Ancestral Math
NEW 9/2/20: Putting Flesh on Bones: “The Story Tellers”
NEW 9/1/20: Cousin Connection: Explaining the Various Levels
NEW 6/22/20: The Inspiration of Scripture in Personal Genealogy
NEW 6/17/20: “Tree of Life” musical theme and “Magnificent Trees” visual theme links for Homepage
NEW 6/7/20: Flying High: Pearce, Gray, & Associated Families’ Connections to Aviation
NEW 5/22/20: Preachers Among the Pearces & Associated Families
NEW 5/11/20: Quakers Meet to Help 1757 Hochstetler Massacre victims
NEW 5/9/20: Hill Family Trees from John Dixon Hill (b.1824) & Joseph Marshall Hill (b.1858) to Today
NEW 4/22/20: The Stories of 20 Common Amish Names, Pt. 1 , Pt. 2, Pt. 3, & Pt. 4 by Erik Wesner
NEW 4/15/20: Simon Lee’s WW I Letter from France, 1918
NEW 3/25/20: How to Use Foreign Language Genealogy Sources from AncestralFindings.com
NEW 3/21/20: A 1905 Hill-Pearce Father-to-Daughter Letter
NEW 3/20/20: Can you Name any of these Western PA Hills?
NEW 3/9/20: Romantic Historical Fiction about our Casselman Valley Amish
NEW 3/5/20: Cousins’ Corner: Jim Stark – A Man for all Seasons & Jim’s 97th Birthday Parade
NEW 2/5/20: 10 Questions & Answers on the Amish, by Erik Wesner
NEW 2/4/20: An Author’s First Wedding: Tom Thumb Style
NEW 2/3/20: “Giving Back More Than we Got”: Paul & Cynthia Pearce’s Legacy
NEW 1/23/20: Stuart Pearce: Water Anyone?
NEW 1/22/20: Genealogy: Humor, Funny Quotes, and Memes
NEW 1/19/20: A Few YouTube Videos Appropriate to our Family History
NEW 1/17/20: Why did the Scots wear kilts?
NEW 1/15/20: Translating Charles “Pop” Krause’s 1884 Baptismal Certificate from German
NEW 1/13/20: The Questions of Anna Lee & Charles Krause’s Confirmation Certificates
NEW 1/11/20: In Memorium: Daniel Lloyd Miller (1946-2020)
NEW 1/8/20: Leesburg, PA’s Exemplary Citizens: The Obits of GGgreat-uncle Robert Barber Hill & GGgreat-aunt Mary Ann (Hill) Thorn
NEW 1/1/20: Google like a German: A Genealogy Workshop
NEW 10/3/15: Look for links, re-postings, & summaries of articles from THE HISTORIAN, THE LAUREL MESSENGER, THE CASSELMAN CHRONICLE, GARRETT CO, MD, MUSEUMS, and MENNONITE FAMILY HISTORY
What are my favorite Original Family Narratives? PEARCE-AUSTEN, LESLIE, “INDIAN JOHN” MILLER, and “TOMMY” LEE
NEW ONGOING: “Vitals” for each couple including ancestors, descendants, locations, grave GPS & more (click on first names in family trees)
IDEA: If you’re from one of our families, why not “save” that family tree file, then replace my name and descendants with yours, then print. and distribute! (I hope you’ll share this with my readers and me.)