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The Life of Orilla Lincoln Ellis
New in GenTales on Medium: The Life and Death of Orilla Lincoln Ellis
She was a pioneer girl, married off at 14 to suffer through the ill fates of her children and poverty, only to spend her final days asking her neighbors to put her out of her misery. The puzzle pieces of her story don’t make the way things were seem like the Good Ol’ Days
Resources for collecting family history
In GenTales today, I offer a few shout-outs to helpful advice on collecting family history. If you get together with family this year, regardless of how you record the information – video, audio, or transcription – the information can be helpful in filling in gaps in vital records.
Read Holidays and family on Substack
Vital Records Snapshot of a Windham Family
New in the GenTales Substack newsletter is a snapshot of the family of Jacob Lincoln of Windham, Connecticut, as told in the vital records.
Read the lineage here.
Capturing the rise and fall of ancestors in snapshots
New in GenTales on Medium – From Rags to Riches and Back Again
While writing the lineage books on my family, I noticed an interesting trend…
Discounted Genealogy PDFs
Until Nov. 28, the genealogy PDFs on Ko-Fi are reduced 25% – use code GEN25
New in GenTales on Substack
An Irish immigrant lineage – the children of Henry O’Neill and Nancy Lee. An excerpt from My Lineage from the Roots Up, vol. 1
Excerpt from Cousins of Nunney Castle
New in GenTales on Substack is a listing of the 20 children of two Prather sisters who married two cousins – one Sprigg and one Yates.
This lineage is in Cousins of Nunney Castle: Four Hundred Years of Praters from England to Indiana
U.S. Military Records – GenTales newsletter
New in the GenTales newsletter on Substack – Military Records and Resources in the U.S.
Includes links to the National Archives and information on what is available and to whom, as well as FOIA request links.
Halloween Special!
Throughout October, get the ebook Immortal Legacy by AP Neal free on Smashwords. Use coupon code GSVV4.
From Medieval Trade to American Colonization
New in GenTales on Medium – The Livery and Merchants’ Guilds of London: My ancestors’ roles in trade and colonization. With mention of ancestors from My Lineage from the Roots Up, vol. 2.
