Located the 1940 census record of the Claude Pefley household in Parke County, Indiana.  On the enumeration his first name was spelled witho...

Located the 1940 census record of the Albert Adams household in St. Joseph County, Indiana.  Albert was not a blood relative, but was the st...

Albert F. Adams was the husband of my maternal first cousin three times removed, Gladys Marie Gilliland.   Through Ancestry.com hints, I wa...

My maternal 1st cousin 3 times removed, Gladys Marie (Gilliland) Adams, was enumerated in the 1940 census of Washington Township, Monroe Cou...

Ezekiel Cooper Chew (1822-1888) was my paternal 3rd-great grandfather.  What follows is an exploratory analysis of the biographical d...

Working on filling in some gaps in my database by utilizing the "Indiana Marriages, 1811-1959" database at  Familysearch.org  to s...

Working on filling in some gaps in my database by utilizing the "Indiana Marriages, 1811-1959" database at  Familysearch.org  to s...

Vital Statistics Index to St. Joseph County, Indiana Newspapers, 1831-1912 by David Eisen. Located this book at the Allen County Public...

A reader, Gwen Gelesko, contacted me with an update on my post on the World War I draft card for Albert Leroy Adams .  At the time of the po...

  Albert Leroy ADAMS was born February 13, 1882 in Mercer County, Ohio, the son of Jonathan and Mary Jane (RIDDLE) ADAMS.  Mary Jane (R...

My maternal 6th-great granduncle, Aaron MENDENHALL, married on this date in 1776 at Center Monthly Meeting in North Carolina to Miriam RICH....

My paternal third great-grandfather, Dr. Ezekiel Cooper Chew and his third wife, Mary Jane (RIDDLE) (ADAMS) ( KEISER) SHIRK, are buried in ...

Source : Elwood, Indiana Call-Leader, November 2, 1949 Mrs. Erma Dailey Dies Tuesday At Her Farm Home Mrs. Erma V. Dailey, 47, died at 6:40 ...

The Solomon LEWIS family was enumerated in the 1860 & 1870 census of Jefferson Twp., Huntington Co., IN. Solomon was my wife 's mat...

The Leander LEWIS family was enumerated in the 1900-1920 census of Jefferson Twp., Huntington Co., IN. Leander was Eileen's maternal 2 ...

Today's featured relative in my database is my paternal 3rd-great grandmother, Caroline Bishop Woolston . Caroline was born February 6, ...

Today's featured relative in my database is my paternal 3rd-great grandfather, Ezekiel Cooper Chew. Ezekiel was born January 17, 1822 ...

This photo of Pete & Pansy Decker came from cousin Lloyd Adams of Florida's collection. I do not know when or where it was taken. Pe...

June Kirk Davis (aka June Gilliland) was born June 11, 1898 in Indianapolis, Marion Co., IN. Her birth certificate lists her parents as Atk...

These photos came from cousin Lloyd Adams in Florida, and were part of his mother Marie's collection of family photographs. Both of thes...