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Jones-Corken Double Cousins

What is a double cousin? It's when first cousins share all four grandparents, not just one set of grandparents.  This happens when two siblings marry two siblings from another family.  Imagine a young lady marrying a guy and then introducing…

DNA Discovery: Phasing the X Chromosome

In the last blog post, I wrote about red-green color blindness, a recessive trait linked to genes on the X Chromosome.((See it here.))  Let's move on to talk about the X Chromosome as a whole and how mine compares to my siblings. Yes, I've…

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…
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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…
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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…