Posts Tagged Maryland

March Birthdays

It’s time to recognize ancestors who were born in March:

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Weekly Updates for 2010-01-27

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Journey Across the Pond

Came-on-a-Ship-WMost lines of my family tree came to America before 1750.  I have very little documentation of their journey across the pond at this point, as I’ve been concentrating on completing my American records first.

Confirmed Passenger Lists

The only passenger list that I have is for the Read the rest

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And then there were 16

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… Read the rest

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A Gentleman Named “Pioneer Ben”

A fascinating biographical sketch on Pioneer Ben Burgin can be found at burginfamily.org:

“Benjamin Burgin, the second child of John & Martha Burgin, was born in Kent County (Shrewsbury Parish) Maryland, November 30,1741 and was christened December 25, 1741.

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