In genealogy research, you never quite know where a perfectly ordinary internet search is going to take you. I certainly wasn’t looking for Presidents the day I Googled the name of my 6X great grandfather, Samuel Dunham (1742-1824). I was simply doing what genealogists do – looking for anything I could find about another long-dead… Continue reading
Around the turn of the 20th century, courtship and marriage in rural communities were primarily dictated by geographic proximity and localized social circles. The experience of my maternal great-grandmother aligns precisely with this historical pattern. Mary ‘Mollie’ Glenn (Powers, Luttrell) Ryan was born May 9, 1885 in Ossian, Wells County, Indiana. When she was 21… Continue reading
Tiny Acorns & Mighty Oaks 