The blog includes my research notes, results & interesting methodologies, sources (and the evidence they may contain) and books I find fascinating as well as random genie-historical musings. I am
A unique marital pattern?
Reverend George and Nancy (Fry) Swartz/Schwartz had 12 children. The family has a unique marital pattern (or at least one I’ve never run across before) of marrying the widowed in-laws.
Is there a name for this phenomenon?
I’ve spent many years working on the Swartz/Schwartz Family of southeastern Indiana (aka Clark and adjoining counties, including Jefferson County KY really) and Pennsylvania. When John Swartz and Elizabeth Ohlweiler
The will of Benjamin Clifford McLeland – a sad tale but not the full tale
Benjamin Clifford McLeland was the 6th child and 4th son of Thomas Asher McLeland and Caroline Decker. He was the last child born to the couple to survive infancy. (Thomas
It’s “Whitey’s” birthday – Happy Birthday Dad
Today would have been my father’s 94th birthday. I miss him, although I can’t help thinking he would not be pleased with our society today (and I shudder to think
Prather, Gaither, Bennett – a very complicated network of marriage connections
As I continue to think about endogomy vs. multiple lines of descent and the impacts of both/either on my at-DNA match lists I realized I simply couldn’t hold all of
mt-DNA research – maybe a plan for determining the mother of James McLeland and sister Mary McLeland Wharton
at-DNA suggests that James McLeland (1772 North Carolina – 1847 Indiana) and Mary McLeland (1770 North Carolina – 1842 Indiana, married to Richard Wharton 1793 Kentucky) are siblings. There are
Airy Gaither – Airy Prather – Airy Hilton – Airy Swartz: where did this unusual name come from?
Airy Swartz was born about 1815, in Clark County Indiana, to newly weds John Swartz and Nancy Prather.1 Throughout her long life the census takers would have problems with her