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Showing posts with label Surname: Van Every. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surname: Van Every. Show all posts
Sunday, March 23, 2025

Identifying Photographs

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 It's a frustrating experience going through old photographs that aren't labeled on the back. Sometimes you can tell who people are ...
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Community History Archives

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Recently I learned about a new free archive website - Community History Archives From their website: The archives are across the United Stat...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Chloe Cooley, Adam William Vrooman, and My Family Tree

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I've written a few times about my Van Every ancestors ties to slavery. The Labors of Hercules Myndert Frederickse and Hercules The Labor...
Monday, January 9, 2023

Amanuensis Monday: 1925 Trip of Myrtle Van Every

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.  I continue my  project  to transc...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Calendar Whiplash in the Hudson Valley 17th Century

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I have written before about keeping track of what calendar is being used with my Eastern European ancestors, since some territory went back ...
Thursday, August 6, 2020

Two Affidavits of Birth - One Person - Two Dates

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My maternal grandmother, Myrtle Vanevery Deutsch, had her sister sign an affidavit of birth for her twice. In 1942, and again in 1945. In 19...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Tombstone Tuesday - Andrew David Van Every

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Andrew David Van Every (1795-1873) St. George Baptist Cemetery, Brant County, Ontario My third great grandfather My only maternal V...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

The Wives of Uncle Sam

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Back in 2008 I wrote about the FBI file for my great uncle, Samuel "Stanford" Ophan Van Every A wife of his had written the fol...
Monday, April 22, 2019

Amanuensis Monday: Melvin Van Every and Cotton in the El Paso Valley - 1917

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Monday, November 5, 2018

Amanuensis Monday: A Protest Against Agitation Against Japanese Farmers - 1919

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Amanuensis Monday: Obituary for Everett Van Every - 1924

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Monday, July 2, 2018

Amanuensis Monday: Obituary of Melvin Van Every (1863-1929)

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

I Know Jack! The Identification of my Maternal Grandmother's First Husband

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Ockham's Razor  is the problem-solving principle that, when presented with competing hypothetical answers to a problem, one should sele...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Returning to the question of a Vanevery Surname Non-Paternity Event

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Back in 2016 I blogged about the possibility of a Van Every Surname Non-Paternity Event.  Several researchers have questioned the parentage ...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

The Marriage Certificate for Myrtle Vanevery and Dale Bowlby Ridgely - April 1927

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Several years ago I discovered the divorce complaint  from my grandmother's second or third husband. The marriage lasted less than three...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Alleged photographs of my great grandfather, Melvin Van Every

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In an online family tree, I found two alleged photographs of my great grandfather, Melvin Van Every. I communicated with the owner of the tr...
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Monday, July 31, 2017

Amanuensis Monday: Melvin Vanevery and the El Paso Cotton Growers - 1919

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Monday, April 17, 2017

Amanuensis Monday: Myrtle Van Every Dines in Gasconade County - 1934

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Monday, March 13, 2017

Amanuensis Monday: Melvin Vanevery's Cheese Creamery 1914-1915

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Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another. I continue my  project  to trans...
Thursday, January 12, 2017

Book Review: Dreams in the Mist

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Several months ago I discovered Dreams in the Mist: Loyalist House Season I by Barbara Nattress The short novel (156 pages) concerns a w...