top of page
Search
familytreearchaeol
5 days ago5 min read
Sacrifice in the Face of Tragedy: How An Ancestor's Heroism Shone Through a 1940 Accident
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025 January 5 -11, 2025 Week One 2025 To Aldo: Here is the story of your heroism that needs to be retold and...
16 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Dec 21, 20247 min read
Remembering the Magic: A Special Christmas Memory from My Childhood
Christmas memories This blog post is a special one that I wrote last year at Christmas about a cherished Christmas holiday memory in my...
10 views1 comment
familytreearchaeol
Nov 27, 20246 min read
Happy Thanksgiving 2024
Some interesting true historical facts you may not know about our American Thanksgiving Every fourth Thursday of November Americans...
7 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Nov 16, 202414 min read
Unraveling the Mystery: The Enigmatic Case of Two John Allens in Revolutionary War Records
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 44 September 16 – 22, 2024 Challenging John Allen John Allen was one of my first paternal ancestors that...
12 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Nov 11, 20242 min read
Remembering My Ancestral Veterans
Veterans Day 2024 To honor those in my family tree who served in the United States military throughout hundreds of years I have created...
3 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Nov 4, 202413 min read
Tempy & Lucinda: Not the Least of My Female Ancestors' Recovered Life Stories
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 40 Least Temperance Wilcox Lord & Lucinda Hall Lord I never met my maternal great-grandfather, Irvin O....
8 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Sep 26, 20244 min read
Cemetery Mysteries: Pursel, Poe, and the Allen Family Tree Connection
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 37 September 9 -15, 2024 Tombstone I find old cemeteries fascinating, even though my family may think it’s...
9 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Sep 20, 20246 min read
Whispers in the Roots: Uncovering a Forbidden Secret Buried in My Family Tree
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 36 – September 2 – 8, 2024 “We Don’t Talk About It” Are there a lot of interesting facts that you do not...
28 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Sep 17, 20249 min read
Untangling Common Surnames: My Paternal Great-Great Grandfather Joseph S. Smith
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 35, August 26 – September 1, 2024 All Mixed Up The Smith surname is one in my family tree may and has...
8 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Sep 12, 20249 min read
The YMCA, SATC, and Lambda Chi Alpha: Pieces of the Life Story of a Little Known Ancestor
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 34 – August 19-25, 2024 Member of the Club As I began to search for information about clubs and...
8 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Aug 30, 20244 min read
Uncovering Royal Ties: Could Diana, Princess of Wales Be My 12th Cousin Once Removed?
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 33 – August 12 – 18, 2024 Favorite Discovery While there are a number of “favorite discoveries” that I...
7 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Aug 17, 202411 min read
The Apple Farm
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 32 – August 5 -11, 2024 Free Space The Apple Farm The year was 1944, the United...
7 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Jul 26, 20247 min read
My Elusive Ancestor Lost to Time
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 31 – July 29 - August 4, 2024 End of the Line We all have them, we all spend time searching for them, but...
11 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Jul 20, 20244 min read
Voyage of Hope: Discovering the Legacy of My Ancestors' Difficult Journey to America on the S.S. Wyoming
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 30 – July 22-28, 2024 Boats Annie Charity White, my maternal great-grandmother While I know that a number...
23 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Jul 9, 20246 min read
Railway Heritage: The Story of My Great-Grandfather's Life on the Tracks
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 28, July 7 – 14, 2024 Trains To say that trains played a large part in my Allen family tree would be an...
372 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Jul 3, 20243 min read
The Bethania Family Gathering
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 26 June 24 – 30, 2034 Family Gathering As family gatherings go my family had quite number of them as I...
11 views1 comment
familytreearchaeol
Jun 27, 20249 min read
Unveiling Ancestral Tales: Revealing the Storyteller in My Family Tree
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 25 June 17th -June 23rd, 2024 Storyteller My family does not have any one particular ancestor that I can...
57 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Jun 16, 20247 min read
Echoes of Resilience: Contrasting the Comforts and Challenges of Our Ancestors' Lives
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 25 June 10 -16, 2024 Hard Times The Great Depression brought hardship to many people during the 1930s in...
32 views0 comments
familytreearchaeol
Jun 8, 20246 min read
"Unveiling the Shadows: A Heartbreaking Health Legacy in My Paternal Ancestral Family Tree"
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 23 June 3rd to June 9th, 2024 Health “Heart disease runs in our family, diabetes runs in our family,...
25 views2 comments
familytreearchaeol
Jun 2, 20244 min read
The Long-Forgotten Resourcefulness of My Goble Ancestors
52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 22 – May 27 – June 21, 2024 Creativity The word creativity has a number of synonyms, the usual are...
17 views0 comments
bottom of page