Jessica Feinstein
Cousins at a wedding
In September of 1914, a highlight of the early autumn social season in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was the wedding of Bertha Jason and John...
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Jessica Feinstein
Dec 12, 20239 min
Solving the mystery of Marie Krivitzky
One of the highlights of 2023 has been removing Marie Krivitzky from my list of unsolved mysteries. I had always known that Marie was a...
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Jessica Feinstein
Aug 7, 20232 min
A reasonable mistake to make: the story of Jehudith
Sometimes when you discover a discrepancy and realize that you’ve made a mistake in your tree, it’s instructive to look back and piece...
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Jessica Feinstein
Jul 5, 20235 min
William Branson Strickson
William Branson Strickson was Ari’s 5x great-grandfather, and was quite unusual in that he made the decision to move away from his...
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Jessica Feinstein
May 20, 20233 min
Fredericka Feinstein (or OMG!: how passenger records and newspapers can lead to new connections)
The Daily News, Lebanon, Pennsylvania · Friday, March 17, 1933, p. 10. My aim in doing a one-name study of all the Feinsteins in the...
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Jessica Feinstein
Mar 10, 20232 min
Successes in Poland
Kalisz. By Fallaner - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109880483 I have been busy making great...
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Jessica Feinstein
Jan 23, 20234 min
George Hodgkinson of Overton Hall
Overton Hall is a country house just outside Ashover in Derbyshire. It was described as “a pleasant old residence, embosomed in ancient...
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Jessica Feinstein
Jan 2, 20232 min
Patience and perseverance pays off (Happy 2023!)
I had a feeling yesterday that I might make another breakthrough this year. I’m not sure why, but it feels as though slowly and steadily...
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Jessica Feinstein
Nov 27, 20222 min
A story in a photograph
I recently rediscovered this wonderful photograph of my grandfather Louis. It is a cabinet portrait taken in a photographic studio in...
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Jessica Feinstein
Nov 2, 20221 min
Organizing your ancestors
One of the ways to organize your ancestors is to give them numbers, using the Ahnentafel system. My grandson Ari would be No. 1, his...
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Jessica Feinstein
Oct 31, 20222 min
Mary Flint from Middleton, and the sad story of a fatal accident
Ari’s 6x great-grandmother, Mary Flint, was born on 23 August 1791 in Middleton By Wirksworth, Derbyshire. Her parents were William Flint...
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Jessica Feinstein
Oct 23, 20222 min
Sophia from Latvia
Today I discovered that the name of Ari’s Latvian 4x great-grandmother was Sophia. I knew that her husband was Josif or Jossel, and I...
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Jessica Feinstein
Oct 21, 20223 min
A burial at Botley: the story of Frederick David Johnson
Today we visited the grave of Flight Sergeant Frederick David Johnson at Botley Cemetery. He died in 1943, at the age of twenty-two, when...
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Jessica Feinstein
Oct 16, 20221 min
William Stapleton from Stamford
William Stapleton was Ari’s 4x great-grandfather. He was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, in 1799, the son of David Stapleton (a silk...
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Jessica Feinstein
Oct 15, 20222 min
James Read, who lost his life in a flood
James Read was Ari’s 5x great-grandfather. He lost his life on 16 January 1841 in Fonthill Bishop, Wiltshire, after a rapid thaw caused...
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Jessica Feinstein
Oct 8, 20221 min
Anne Drodge from Dorset
Anne Drodge was one of Ari’s 7x great-grandmothers. Her baptism took place in Christchurch, Dorset, on 3 August 1755, but the record does...
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Jessica Feinstein
Oct 6, 20223 min
James Sims of Duffield
James Sims (also Syms and Simms) was Ari’s 8x great-grandfather, born in Duffield, Derbyshire in 1681 when King Charles II was on the...
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Jessica Feinstein
Oct 4, 20222 min
Sarah Welch from Corfe Castle
Sarah Welch was Ari’s 5x great-grandmother. She was born in Corfe Castle in 1817, the seventh child of a tailor, Henry Welch, and his...
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Jessica Feinstein
Sep 26, 20221 min
Elizabeth Colley, possibly from Oddingley
Elizabeth Colley was a spinster when she married the widower Francis Poole on the 18th of September, 1770, in Oddingley, Worcestershire....
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Jessica Feinstein
Sep 18, 20222 min
Could Henry Walker have been Ari’s 5x great-grandfather?
As noted in the blog post for Mary Kitchen Pearson, shortly before her son Henry was born in 1842, a tin plate worker named Henry Walker...
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