From Whom Did Peter Get His Color Blindness?
My son Peter has red-green color blindness. We discovered this when he was about 7. No one in my family has color blindness, so I was quite surprised.
I happened to come across one of those visual tests for color blindness in some book…
Probate Discovery: Mrs. Mabel Vermilyea (1885-1938)
This is my 100th post since the Jonnes Genealogy Blog began four years ago!
For the second summer in a row, I took advantage of living in Minnesota to conduct genealogy research locally.
In 2021, Lucia and I drove to Grand Rapids, Minnesota,…
Dorothy, the Root Beer Lady
For the second summer in a row, I took advantage of living in Minnesota to conduct genealogy research locally.
In 2021, Lucia and I drove to Grand Rapids, Minnesota, where we obtained the probate file for Mrs. Caroline S. King, aka "Lena"…
Photo Discovery: 3GG Nancy Wood (1810-1886)
Acquiring images of ancestors is an integral aspect of genealogy research. Seeing a face speaks volumes about the personalities of our progenitors.
A Lukemire cousin recently forwarded an image of our mutual third great-grandmother (3GG)…
Wesley Blalock in the Civil War
Second great-grandfather (2GG) Wesley Blalock (1825-1895) joined the 31st Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company K, on 10 August 1861 in Centralia, Marion, Illinois.((Wesley named one of his daughters after the town in which he enlisted.)) The…
My Civil War Ancestors
In recent posts, I've been in an analysis rather than research mode. First came a summary of ten years of discoveries and breakthroughs. (Read here.) Then I posted a series of three articles about the occupations of my ancestors. (Read…
Ancestors by Occupation III
This is the last in a series of three posts about my ancestor's occupations. See the first two here and here.
In a nutshell, my ancestors were mainly merchants, bankers, doctors, scientists, teachers, clergy, local public officials, and…
Ancestors by Occupation II
In the previous post, I introduced occupational family trees and displayed two charts, one for my Dad's tree and one for Mom's. (See the post here.)
In this post, I will identify the most common occupational fields of my ancestors. To…
Ancestors by Occupation I
Family trees come in all forms and styles. In addition to the traditional chart that identifies ancestors by name, one can also create tree diagrams emphasizing a particular aspect or feature of one's ancestors. Genetic trees, for example,…
R.I.P. Joy M. Kiser (1947-2022)
Our family was stunned and heart-broken to hear of Joy Kiser's unexpected death a week ago at age 74. She would have been 75 tomorrow.
Joy was the Jones family historian. Beginning in the 1990s, Joy spent many years researching the tragic…