After struggling with the software, I finally learned how to make word search puzzles correctly! This week’s puzzle contains he most surnanmes ithat occur most often in our family tree. The answers are all shown
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New Feature — Family Crossword Puzzles
Introducing a new feature — Crossword puzzles based on our Family History. Have fun. And perhaps learn something that may be of interest. Puzzle #1 references the geography, and early history, of Tioga Co., PA.
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Among the photos belonging to my ggm, Phebe CAMPBELL Hoyt, were a bunch of photos taken in England. I think this one is of her 2nd cousin, Percy Robert Essex. Here’s the front of the
Continue ReadingGreat Find. An 1885 Letter from Peter Essex in England to Phebe CAMPBELL Hoyt in Nelson, PA
Click on 1885 letter from Peter Clinch Essex (1842 – 1916) in England, to Phebe CAMPBELL Hoyt (1832 – 1916) of Nelson, PA (campbellluggblackwell.com) This may help with who is who:
Continue ReadingNote From Geo. Wilson to Thelma ELLISON Huyett About the Death of Mabel SHIPMAN Shaw
I had lots of phone conversations amd correspondence with our late Cousin, Thelma ELLISON Huyett. In many of them she shared with me information that Cousin Mabel SHIPMAN Shaw had shared with her. See: https://www.campbellluggblackwell.com/LtrGeoRWilson2ThelmaEllisonHuyett.html
Continue ReadingMy Mother & the Aunt Who Raised Her
Jessica (Hoyt) Thompson and Inez (Hoyt) Boller
Continue ReadingCotswolds & America (Part 14). [Originally Published Aug. 30, 2021]
1804 was a big year. On 1/27/1804, in Avenng, Gloucestershire, Ann Clinch is born to Thomas & Sarah Lugg Clinch. On 3/26/1804, the northernmost part of PA’s Lycoming Co — Tioga Twp. — is split
Continue ReadingCampbell of Argyll Coat of Arms
This small, framed image of the coat of arms of the Campbells of Argyle hung oh a wall of my parent’s living room as far back as I can remember. All of the surviving writings
Continue ReadingDescendants of Jane (Hazlett) Ellison Andrews Finally in WikiTree.
It’s taken weeks, and countless hours, but I finally finished adding her descendants to WikiTree’s giant, shared, family tree. Jane (see https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hazlett-625) was born 1809 in Lancaster Co., PA, to Samuel & Sarah “Sally” Campbell
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