By Tonia Kendrick on 8 Aug 2009
Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Assignment is to list one’s 16 great-great-grandparents, include their dominant ancestry and to calculate one’s own dominant ancestry.
My spin on this is to look back an additional four generations from the ggg’s in order to identify their ancestry. Many, many of my ancestors were already on these shores at that . . . → : CONTINUE READING
By Tonia Kendrick on 2 Aug 2009
Let’s recognize ancestors and close relatives who were born in August:
Agnes Kattermann, 9x-great-grandmother, born 20 Aug 1634.
William Garrett, 7x-great-grandfather, born 21 Aug 1643 in Leicestershire, Darby, England.
Elizabeth Mawson, 11x-great-grandmother, born 26 Aug 1655 in England.
Johans Philip Dellinger, 7x-great-grandfather, born 24 Aug 1706 in Oberacker, Kraichtal, Baden-Wurtemberg.
Rhoda Cunningham, 4x-great-grandmother, born 15 Aug 1763 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Maud . . . → : CONTINUE READING
By Tonia Kendrick on 12 Feb 2009
The Kendrick surname is usually considered to be of Welsh, English, or Scottish origin. The Welsh and English origins of the name are quite similar. In Wales, it was derived from the personal name “Cynwrig,” meaning chief man. In England it was derived from the given name “Cenric” or “Kendrich”, from the Old English pre 7th . . . → : CONTINUE READING