House Built by 5th Great-Grandfather for Sale

A couple months ago, Lucia and I spent a weekend in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.  The mushroom capital of the world lies only three miles from Longwood Gardens and 10 miles from the site of the Battle of Brandywine Creek. Kennett Square…

Uncle Jack in World War I: The Kettering Bug

While researching Uncle Jack at Carlstrom Field in central Florida in 1919 and 1920, I came across an interesting bit of military history. Uncle Jack was born Orville P. Bonn on 18 September 1896 in Montevideo, Minnesota and died age 89 on…

Uncle Jack in World War I: Revising the Timeline

I need to report that I overlooked online copies of military muster rolls for World War I, which affect our understanding of the service of granduncle Orville P. Bonn (1896-1985), whom subsequent generations knew as Uncle Jack. I had assumed…

Uncle Jack in World War I: The Italian Connection

This is the fifth in a series of research articles about my granduncle Orville P. "Jack" Bonn (1896-1985). A Montevideo News article announcing Orville P. Bonn's return home in 1920 from three years of military service during World War I…

Uncle Jack in World War 1: Was He Injured?

Was Orville P. "Jack" Bonn (1896-1985) injured during World War I or anytime during his three years of military service?  As discussed in three previous posts, Bonn served in the U.S. Army Air Service 1917-1920.((See here, here, and here.)) Unfortunately,…

Uncle Jack in World War I: Was He an Aviator?

While I look into the reference to granduncle "Jack" Bonn serving in a special detachment that went to Italy, let's address the big question before us. Was Orville P. Bonn (1896-1985) a pilot in World War I? I believe the answer is no. …

Uncle Jack in World War 1: Uniform and Medals

In the last post, I began an exploration of my granduncle Jack Bonn’s service in the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I.  Orville Philip Bonn (1896-1985) was known to the Army as Orville or Orville P. Bonn.  We always knew him…

Uncle Jack in World War I: Part 1

Unfortunate news.  I finally received a substantive response from the National Military Records Center (NMRC) in St. Louis, Missouri about the personnel file for granduncle Jack Bonn (1896-1985).  Tragically, his file was one of those lost…

Who Was Wesley Blalock’s Father?

Civil War veteran Wesley Blalock (1825-1895) was one of my father's great-grandfathers.  (View him in the bottom right portion of my dad's tree above.)  Wesley lived in Little Egypt before the war and in Clermont County, Ohio afterward. …
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X Chromosome Redux: Sogndal v. Hafslo

Following up on my X-Chromosome post from a couple months ago,((See it here. )) I found two new DNA matches on my X Chromosome that allow me to assign even deeper Norwegian ancestry to some segments. As background, the image above shows…