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When I began documenting our family history, I knew that our roots were in Lithuania, my family always made that clear. Our DNA results confirmed it and my journey began. I did not know my grandparent's names, how they lived, or anything about them. As nieko apie juos nezinojau! When I was younger, I had a very casual attitude towards family history and was not very attentive on those rare occasions when my family told their stories. Over time, I got serious and once I began arranging the multitude of photographs that Ed and I had collected over the years, I realized that our photos, especially the old ones, told a story. Lucky for us, some of those old photos had notes on the ba ...

This book is the family history of Jacob and Sophie Kessler (Jankel Kotlarek and Shifra Lampart) who emigrated to the United States in 1907 from Czyzewo (then part of the Russian Empire and now a town in Poland).

A substantive record of the ancestry of the Owens families of the northern neck of Virginia, from A.D. 1960 to 1178 B.C., starting with Eustace Conway Owens, then following his lineage back to Brutus Silvius, the founder and first King of Britain. The first paragraph of each chapter contains the subject’s name, other names they were known by, titles, monikers, ranks, and basic personal data when available, i.e., date of birth, place of birth, christening or baptism, date of death, place of death, date of burial, and place of burial. The story or narrative of each person begins with the second paragraph. This usually starts with information regarding the subject’s place of birth or marria ...

A collection of old-time, turn=of=the-century photos and newspaper articles about pioneer days in Oklahoma, from 1895 to 1920, written by Pearl McConnell Edmonson for various rural Oklahoma newspapers. The book tells the story of her teen and adult journey as a 15-year-old school teacher, assistant school superintendent, county courthouse, and Oklahoma State senate secretary in the early 1900's.at a time when women were supposed to be homemakers, seen but not heard.

Esther "Pearl" McConnell was born in Kansas but moved with her family to Oklahoma in the early Land Rush days. She had a keen interest in writing and desire to improve herself. She was a remarkable women in the early 1900's of Oklahoma statehood, working as a school teacher, assistant school superintendent and as secretary to the Senate Pro Tem in the Oklahoma State Senate. Pearl’s wrote hundreds of articles for Oklahoma newspapers about the early Oklahoma pioneers which give us that rich flavor of the hardships and joys of a little girl and young woman growing up in the Oklahoma Territory in a tumultuous and rowdy time in one of our last frontiers. These stories are a true treasur ...

This is one book that blends into two series of books. One series is complete on the 4 children of James and Mary (Espy) McClure. One daughter married Henry McHenry. Information on the other series is being gathered by the McHenry Reunion on the nine children of John and Susannah (McNeil) McHenry. Their Henry who married Priscilla McClure daughter of James and Mary McClure

PFC Ottis Earl Sudduth WWII Replacement Soldier In the spring of 2022, Ottis Earl Sudduth’s niece, Penny, contacted the author concerning information posted to a genealogy website that he managed. In one of the several emails they exchanged, an apparent discrepancy was noted in the number of months that her uncle PFC Ottis Earl Sudduth spent as a POW during WWII. In the process of resolving the discrepancy (5-months vs. 9-months) they discovered more detail about her Uncle Earl than either anticipated possible so long after his death in 1984. As the author crafted biographical notes to add to his website, it became clear that there was enough information for a story – however brief. ...

Reconstitution des familles de Haut-Clocher / The families of Haut-Clocher, Lorraine, France. Compiled with the church records and civil state records, from 1690 to 1922. Including some articles about the historical context. Written by Pascal Pariset with help of Odette Meyer and Jean-Claude Becker.