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Category: Simpson
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Susan A. Simpson
Susan Ann Simpson was born in Fort Covington, Franklin County, New York on 15 June 1847, the second child of six born to George W. and Achsa (Sisco) Simpson (and their only daughter). Aunt Susie (she was the sister of my great grandfather, Ernest L. Simpson) had surgery when she was young to have a…
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John Mayel Simpson – my 3x great grandfather
Brick walls in genealogical research are created often when we do not analyze information closely and instead make assumptions about what we are visualizing. Such is the case with my third great grandfather, John Mayel Simpson. In over thirty years of research, I’d made little progress on this family. And the reason? John rarely used…
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Sifting census data with Maptive’s mapping to find the needle in the haystack!
Maps are every genealogist’s friend. When you understand where your ancestor’s lived, their proximity to towns, villages and others around them, it helps reveal those elusive details that we all hope to uncover. Sometimes, however, mapping is an absolute necessity, as in the case of identifying when and where my 3x great grandparents, John Mayel…
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Welcome to the family, Uncle Bill!
Last week I wrote about finding the parents of my third great grandmother, Mina Wilson, by combing through clusters of autosomal DNA matches. Well, this week I get to add another person to the family tree: Uncle William M. Simpson! But first, some background: Far little is known about our Simpson family prior to my…
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DNA demonstrates parentage of Mina Wilson
Who are the parents of Mina Wilson, wife of Obed Sisco? It wasn’t until I started playing with clusters of DNA that an answer appeared! Like most women of the early 19th Century, Mina didn’t have opportunities to leave much of a paper trail to give us hints about her origins and family roots. In…
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Susan Belle Stanwood
Click here for Susan B. Stanwood’s genealogy Susan Belle Stanwood was the young child of Albert and Lavina (Bursley) Stanwood. She was born at Santiago, Sherburne County, Minnesota 15 May 1885, and died at Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota 22 December 1946. She married her first husband, Edwin R. Clark, at Floodwood, St. Louis County, Minnesota…
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Ernest Loren Simpson
Ernest Simpson, sometimes known as “Bob” Simpson, was my grandfather’s father. She was the youngest of his children, born to his third wife, Susan Belle Stanwood. See Ernie’s family tree here.
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The story, the pictures and the facts!
Like many families, stories of a Native American heritage circulated. My grandmother, Goldie (Simpson) Uphouse Edwards, truly believed her father was half American Indian, but that tale turned out to be completely erroneous and false. (Oh my, I still wish I hadn’t burst my grandmother’s bubble when I learned of the unwelcome truth!) Thankfully, most…
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