Austin, Scovill, Drake and Hughes

So this next bit is why I encourage all newbie genealogists to REALLY study the Census Record.  When it's just names and numbers it'...

Now -- in all my years of chasing my ancestors -- the loss of the 1890 United States Federal Census makes me weep.  It seems that it was rig...

Every once in a while I get a bee in my bonnet and I abandon everything and spend hours just trying to find a smidgen of Allison.  Not in cr...

Allison Royce Drake marries Jane Myers in June 1882 in Hillsdale.  On His marriage license he lists himself as a farmer.              ***N...

So 1871 proved to be a rough year at the Drake Farm. Bird is 14 years old, Allison is 12 and Jane is 10.  John Stout Drake manages to wait...

Our Allison was 12 years old the summer his baby brother, Johnny, died on 31 August 1871.  How involved is a young man with a new baby so mu...

Then there was an Eleanor Whitney.  She was born in 1837 in Ohio.  She was enumerated in Woodbridge, Hillsdale County, Michigan with her hus...