May 20, 2013

A Tenuous Connection To Abraham Lincoln

caswell-massey-picture

Abraham Lincoln When we were little kids in grade school each year we would dutifully make profile pictures of Abe Lincoln and proudly take them home to Mom and Dad. It never occurred to me that many years later I would be researching my husband’s family tree and find that there was a “kissin’ cousin” [...]

Genealogy Tracking: Wilkersons, Whitmores and L. Frank Boyd – Part 2

Medal of Honor circa 1860's era

Genealogy Tracking: Wilkersons, Whitmores and L. Frank Boyd – Part 2 Part 2: (continued from Part 1 ) When we left Iowa in 1995 it would be two years before we would return again. In the mean time though, I got right on the trail of John Whitmore since Mr. Stucker had given us a [...]

Genealogy Tracking: Wilkersons, Whitmores and L. Frank Boyd – Part 3

L. Frank Boyd letter written 1914 to his cousin John Whitmore

As I stated in Genealogy Tracking: Wilkersons, Whitmores and L. Frank Boyd – Part 2 our genealogy research led us to L. Frank Boyd, my husband’s 1st cousin, four times removed. Jim’s cousin Trish gave us copies of records that she had about Louis, which included a letter written by him in 1914 to Jim [...]

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