Going back 10 generations of ancestors, it took 8,190 of them to make me, and considering human beings have a seeming propensity for armed conflict, I was almost certain to find records my ancestors’ service in various battles and wars. Going back as far as I can, the first ancestor with a military record isContinue reading “Ancestral Recall: The Extensive Military History of Service of My Ancestors From the French and Indian War to the Present Day”
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Ancestral Recall: Yes, My 7th-Great-Grandfather, Colonel Joseph Belt, Has a Historical Marker in DC
When digging into the Odell/Doubleday line of my ancestry, I noticed a suggested ancestor whose name was Joseph Belt. Along with the suggestion came a picture, which is rare for someone who lived in the early 1700s. As I clicked on it, I found that it was a picture of a historical marker. The markerContinue reading “Ancestral Recall: Yes, My 7th-Great-Grandfather, Colonel Joseph Belt, Has a Historical Marker in DC”
Ancestral Recall: Learning That One (and Probably More) of My 4,096 10th-Great-Grandparents Owned Slaves
Having done my ancestral research on Ancestry.com’s family tree builder, I have come to see just how many people it took to lead to me. Every ancestor above me was the result of a procreation of two more ancestors above that one…and so on and so on… That means that every generation above has twiceContinue reading “Ancestral Recall: Learning That One (and Probably More) of My 4,096 10th-Great-Grandparents Owned Slaves”
Ancestral Recall: Discovering My English Heritage and My Ancestors from Colonial Maryland and Virginia
As I wrote in a previous post, about 25% of my DNA comes from southern Germany and eastern France, while another 25% comes from England with a dash of Scotland apparently, though I can’t seem to find that ancestor. The other 50% comes from my European Jewish roots. In this post, I detail the ancestralContinue reading “Ancestral Recall: Discovering My English Heritage and My Ancestors from Colonial Maryland and Virginia”
Ancestral Recall: Explaining My Genealogical Ties to 15th Century Germany (and a Dash of France)
As I wrote in my first post on my ancestral lineage, I discovered that 50% of my genealogy comes from southern Germany and England (and a dash from Scotland). In this post, I’ll explain how I found my roots in Germany’s Bayern, Baden-Wurtemberg, Saarland, and Rheinland-Pfalz provinces. According to my DNA chart from Ancestry.com, ofContinue reading “Ancestral Recall: Explaining My Genealogical Ties to 15th Century Germany (and a Dash of France)”
Ancestral Recall: Tracing My European Jewish Heritage to Poland, Moldova, and Russia
As I wrote previously, 50% of my DNA is “European Jewish.” It wasn’t surprising, considering my mother’s side of my ancestry was entirely Jewish… I knew my great-grandmother, Esther Feinglass, whom we called Gram, for the first 18 years of my life. She died in July 2002, shortly before I went to college. As theContinue reading “Ancestral Recall: Tracing My European Jewish Heritage to Poland, Moldova, and Russia”
Ancestral Recall: A Series of Posts Dedicated to Sharing My Lineage
In 2018, after my grandmother died, I became very interested in my family tree, almost certainly because death has a way of making us reflect on our current lives. It makes us think about who we are, where we came from, and where we’re going. A month or two later, I paid for the AncestryContinue reading “Ancestral Recall: A Series of Posts Dedicated to Sharing My Lineage”
