It's time for another one of Randy Seaver's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun posts. List your matrilineal line - your mother, her mother, etc. back to the first identifiable mother. Note: this line is how your mitochondrial DNA was passed to you! Tell us if you have had your mitochondrial DNA … [Read more...]
Surname Saturday: SHANNON
5 February 2011 By
The SHANNON surname first appears in my wife's family tree at her maternal great-grandmother, Marie R (SHANNON) BANNACH. From the looks of it Marie didn't have a very good start to her life. Her mother, Mary (DAKINS) SHANNON died when Marie was only four years old. Then, as far as we can tell, her … [Read more...]
Weekly History: August 22nd – 28th
22 August 2010 By
Weekly History for our family for this week. As always, you can find any date on the Dates & Anniversaries page. August 23rd 1714 - Married - Nathaniel SHANNON & Abigail VAUGHAN - Nathaniel and Abigail are my wife's 8th-great-grandparents on her mother's side. Nathaniel … [Read more...]
Tombstone Tuesday: Rosina Shannon
15 June 2010 By
When we were last visiting my in-laws up in central Wisconsin, we decided to take a trip a few miles east to the Plover, Wisconsin area. It turns out that a few of my wife's ancestors settled in that area and were supposed to be buried nearby. We took a drive out there one morning and happened to … [Read more...]
Weekly History: May 23rd – 29th
23 May 2010 By
My family history for this week. As always, you can find this information out at any time on the Dates & Anniversaries page. May 25th 1922 - Died - Ignatz Peter SZULTA - Ignatz is my 3rd-great-grandfather on my father's side. He was born 30 Jan 1849 in Bukowa Góra, Sulęczyno Parish, … [Read more...]
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