The Town on the River – Carnival of Genealogy Post

     Most people outside of East Central Ohio probably have never heard of Roscoe Village.  Located in Tuscarawas Township, Coshocton City, Coshocton County, Ohio, it sits off of the Ohio and Erie Canal.  Coshocton County was formed from the Muskingum and Tuscarawas counties in December 1810 and takes its name from the Delaware Indian word [...]

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Tomorrow’s CoG

Stay tuned and come back tomorrow when I make my post to be added to the Carnival of Genealogy managed by http://creativegene.blogspot.com .  The post will be about a place an ancestor lived.  What will I post about?  Rush County, Indiana?  Madison County, Indiana?  Hartford, Conn?  Coshocton, Ohio?  Or some other location?  You’ll just have [...]

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What Accent Do You Have?

Ever since my children were old enough to be in school and notice how others talked, they’ve laughed at how I’ve pronounced some words.  When I wash the dishes, I “woish” or “warsh” (mainly it’s the former) as I grew up in Ohio & that’s how we pronounced it.  I really have to think when [...]

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Music of Your Life

Have you given any thought to how music has shaped your life?  What was your first concious thought about the songs that surround you?  What was your first record/CD/downloadable song?  What type of music did your parents or grandparents or even great-grandparents listen to?  Do you have memories of them listening to music – and [...]

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Faded Photograph . . .

covered now with lines and traces . . .” Yeah, you remember the old song (“Traces”) – how many of us still confine those historical photographs to magnetic, un-archival albums or boxes that aren’t meant for long term storage or in damp or extremely hot conditions?  What about all those documents – birth & death [...]

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Inherited Traits

I’m a little late for the latest Carnival of Genealogy (CoG) at Creative Gene (see link at the right), but I wanted to add my 2 cents.  The theme was Inherited Traits or Genes.  Most everyone on my paternal side has brown hair – which is probably where I got it.  My maternal side has [...]

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Photographs

OLD PHOTOGRAPHS

Caylor Family Reunion
pre-1921, probably Hamilton County, Indiana
 

My Great-Grandparents
John Lafayette & Katie J. (Blazer) Johnson

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Another Shout Out!

And if you didn’t get here through my website – then you need to go check that out!
http://wendylittrell.tripod.com/allmybranches.html
It has lots of information about my family history.
And if you are a stickler for “is my surname there?” because you’re a little ADD or too impatient then I’ll list those:
AMORE
HOUSE
WERTS/WERTZ
JOHNSON
GOUL
BLAZER
STERN
WILT
CAYLOR
BUSHONG
CLAWSON
MULLIS

Word of caution: Those aren’t the only surnames [...]

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A Butcher, a Baker, a . . . Harnessmaker?!

Yep – you read that right!  A Harnessmaker!  Wanted to list the occupations of folks in my family history file so I spent a little time yesterday evening going through the list.  I haven’t input some occupations yet so this is really an incomplete listing.  Most of the occupations I’ve found either through censuses or [...]

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Shout Out!

If you’ve never browsed through Cyndi’s List (http://www.cyndislist.com) – you really need to!  Quit using the search engines on her site & start browsing!  She has tons of information on anything you might want – from Military to Immigration to Migrations to Occupations to Odds & Ends to Surnames to Censuses and on and on!  [...]

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