This is about finding out my 100% Polish mother's family is not 100% Polish. bonniegenealogy.blog/2026/03/09/2... #52Ancestors #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory

Week 9 of #52Ancestors is about conflicting clues. My 4x-great-grandfather Danforth Tombs' obituary names a brother... but I think it's really his nephew. bonniegenealogy.blog/2026/03/04/2... #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory

What a find! www.wcvb.com/article/bost...

They brought back registration for virtual attendees! #NGS #genealogy #ancestry whova.com/portal/regis...

My thief-of-a-7th-great-grandfather’s cousin Jasper Godby (also a thief!) wrote a letter in 1756 to his parents back home in London from Maryland, where he was transported in 1747. It’s part of the Prize Papers in the National Archives, Kew. bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/12/30/w... #genealogy #ancestry

We've published our 500th story! Many thanks to volunteer @cotswoldtalespast.bsky.social www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/our-500... #FamilyHistory #WomensHistory #PostOfficeHistory #Genealogy

Week 8 of #52Ancestors is about big decisions -- the decision to emigrate is quite big! Here's a modified part of my dissertation about emigrants from Korczyna and Iwonicz and the reasons they left. bonniegenealogy.blog/2026/02/20/2... #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory #Galicia #Iwonicz #Korczyna

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Here's Week 7 of #52Ancestors about how the 1900 Census made me have to ask, "Who's your daddy?" I found the answer in a Civil War pension file, and it is way crazier than I had ever imagined. bonniegenealogy.blog/2026/02/09/2... #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory #CivilWar

Here Week 6 of #52Ancestors about a favorite photo. This picture is of my great-grandma, her sister, their attitudes, and really really big bows. bonniegenealogy.blog/2026/02/08/2... #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory

Here's Week 5 of #52Ancestors about the breakthrough Y-DNA led to on my great-grandmother's Bole line thanks to David Boles. It involves earls! bonniegenealogy.blog/2026/02/05/2... #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory #Y-DNA #Kelburn #Boyle

It was 85 years ago today that my great-grandma's brother Jan Kowalski was murdered at Mauthausen. He was 37. I can't help but see parallels with people being taken from their homes now and sent to detention centers. Let's hope it stops. #genealogy collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/document/...

Week 4 of #52Ancestors is a brief update of the struggle of trying to figure out who my Irish 4x great-grandparents are -- using ideas around surname frequency, naming conventions, and DNA. bonniegenealogy.blog/2026/01/24/2... #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory

#Genealogy Have you seen Amy Johnson Crow's 2026 prompts for #52Ancestors in 52 Weeks (also 12 Ancestors in 12 Months)? The new themes are thought-provoking and inspiring, giving participants a fresh perspective on their #FamilyHistory. I'm in! More: climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2025/12/52-a...

Here's Week 3 of #52Ancestors -- about family lore around being part Native American and how lore can add to our understanding of our ancestors' lives. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2026/01/18/2...

The Dear Paul column is looking for two kinds of hidden gems this year: newspaper stories and parish register curiosities. Did your ancestor make the headlines for something unusual. Plus what did you discover hidden in those parish registers. If you’ve uncovered a story, I’d love to hear from you.

Week 2 is about my great-grandma's 44 handwritten pages of reminiscences that add color to the lives of her and her family, when otherwise we'd have only been left with official records, which are all too often black and white. bonniegenealogy.blog/2026/01/14/2... #genealogy #52Ancestors #ancestry

Week 1: Ancestor I Admire: My great-grandma immigrated to the US, raised her four children mostly as a single mom since her husband left, and was awarded the Gold Cross of Merit by the Polish Government-in-Exile. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory #52Ancestors bonniegenealogy.blog/2026/01/12/2...

Week 29 (last of 2025 for me!) A thief cousin of my thief-of-a-7x-great-grandfather. It involves theft, convictions, captured ships, and a thwarted attempt at sending a letter across the Atlantic, only for it to end up in the National Archives at Kew. bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/12/30/w... #genealogy

Explore a database of over 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals | Archaeology News Online Magazine #Genealogy share.google/gcIfJC1MoIej...

Here's Week 28. Two of my 6x great grandfathers & their families moved to Canada. One, Benoni Wiltse, sort of "traveled for work"... as he was a Loyalist in the Revolution and moved to Canada because he fought for the British. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/12/16/w...

Here's Week 27 of #52Ancestors about my great-grandpa Louis Rajchel's butcher-grocery store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His store was an integral part of the community and was involved in less-than-legal activities during Prohibition...! #genealogy #ancestry bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/12/09/w...

Here's Week 26 of #52Ancestors about my favorite name. In this case, the name of an ancestral couple: Obadiah Eddy and Phebe Prouty. So fun to say! #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/12/05/w...

Here's week 25 about the FAN (friends, associates, neighbors) club. This is about my great-grandpa Ludwik "Louis" Rajchel and his friendship with Wladyslaw "Walter" Szajna and their families -- both from Iwonicz, Podkarpackie, Poland. #52Ancestors #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/11/26/w...

Still catching up and still woefully behind... but here's Week 24 of #52Ancestors about my Polish great-grandma's cousin who was a sign painter, probably for theatres, in New York City. A tortured artist, in the end. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/10/16/w...

For Week 23 of #52Ancestors about "wedding bells," I instead wrote about someone who didn't get married -- "Aunt Nan," my grandpa's great-aunt, who was thought to have been a mean old biddy by our family for many years. We were wrong. #genealogy #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/09/06/w...

Remains of Maryland Founding Family to be Reburied Along with Rare 17th-Century Lead Coffins #Genealogy www.chesapeakebaymagazine.com/remains-of-m...

#52Ancestors Week 22 is about the Glattfelder Reunion, which has been going on for 120 years. I learned when my line back to the original immigrant was confirmed, and there's a bit of name-dropping just for kicks. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/09/02/w...

Here's Week 21 of #52Ancestors. This is about my great-great grandpa's brother Henry R. Boley, who was killed at age 19 fighting for the Union at the Battle of Arkansas Post, which was part of the Vicksburg Campaign. #genealogy #familyhistory #CivilWar #ancestry bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/08/29/w...

Finally finished Week 20 of #52Ancestors about "wheels". Here are stories of buggies and cars, mostly to do with my grandpa and his mom, a ballsy lady who didn't mind showing up the youngins. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory #Ford #Farmall bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/08/25/w...

More Civil War record images from the National Archives posted! www.bonniegenealogy.com/resources New ones are: Albert, Isaac N, Joseph B, & William A Chipman Ezra Dautrich Cornelius & John Dunnick William C Dunnuck Jacob Glotfelty Augustus, Daniel M, John M, & William M Seyler #genealogy #NARA

Here's (the late) Week 19 of #52Ancestors about the amazing #LondonArchives, #GuildhallLibrary, and #BritishLibrary and how their archivists & librarians helped us track our criminal ancestor with records that aren't available online. #genealogy #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/07/30/w...

Here's the very late Week 18 of #52Ancestors about my 4x great-grandfather Southey King Timmons and his brother Smith Timmons, who shortly after moving from Delaware to Ohio, were in 1837 accused of murder. #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/07/15/w...

Getting a bit closer to being caught up with #52Ancestors! Here's Week 17 about DNA -- this one is about how using 23andMe's mt-DNA haplogroup info and their genetic family tree helped to figure out what happened to my great-grandmother's missing aunt. #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/23/w...

Still working on catching up on #52Ancestors. Here's Week 16 -- about my most unbalanced ancestor, John Howland, the guy who fell off the Mayflower. #genealogy #familyhistory #mayflower #pilgrims #johnhowland #Fenstanton bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/21/w...

Here's Week 15 about the mistake of trusting early published genealogies that are unsourced. So -- Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Connecticut, is NOT a link to fancy shmancy English ancestors. Who is he? No one knows. #52Ancestors #genealogy #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/16/w...

Here's the (late) Week 14 post on my dad's French ancestors immigrating in the 1840s and ending up in Cedar Township, Jefferson County, Iowa, which was nicknamed "Frenchtown". As the name suggests, there were LOTS of French people there! #52Ancestors #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/15/w...

Now that school is over, I was able to finish what should have been finished back in March! So here's a (very late) Week 13 of #52Ancestors -- about some ancestors who helped found Guilford, Connecticut and the houses they lived in. #genealogy #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/14/w...

Who else is counting down to the #1960census public release on April 1, 2032? This one is gonna be huge. The first post-war census that contains the largest jump in population in American history. #BabyBoomers #Genealogy www.archives.gov/news/article...

Peter Cunningham survived being shot in the head at Gettysburg and in the leg at Spotsylvania. He married, had three children, and died young due to complications from his injuries in battle, aged just 46. He was my 3x-ggma's brother. #52Ancestors #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/04/08/w...

For the #52Ancestors prompt about brick walls, I had to write about my Irish 4th-great-grandparents. It seems like everyone who's at all Irish has to have an Irish ancestor brick wall. It's like a rite of passage of Irish #genealogy. This is mine. bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/03/19/w...

This is about 2x-gr-gpa James Franklin Boley and his siblings: they lost both parents and 2 siblings within 5 months, and later lost another sibling in the Civil War. It's good they had each other to rely on through such difficult times. #52Ancestors #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/03/16/w...

I was really moved by @marcelias.bsky.social's Open Letter to Elon Musk. In more ways than one. So I wrote one of my own. jenmen.substack.com/p/my-open-le...

Week 9 of #52Ancestors: family secrets. One of my great-grandma's cousins came to the U.S. in 1924 from Poland using a fake identity. His own son didn't even know until after he passed away, and now he's given me permission to share his father's story. #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/02/24/w...

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Week 8 of #52Ancestors is about my 4x great-grandfather's move west from Pennsylvania to Iowa in 1844 -- he described his journey in letters home and tracked his movements in his farm diary. #genealogy #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/02/17/w...

Are we related (according to the often incorrect FamilySearch tree)? www.familysearch.org/en/connect/9...

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. #resistancegenealogy.