Showing posts with label family tree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family tree. Show all posts
Sunday, January 18, 2026

the first man to buy a car, Robert Allison, a mechanical engineer of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania. Here's the account of the event, from Winton

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We did not know where our customers would come from, but we were sure they would come. We started building four machines, and when one was f...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

More family tree research has crazy coincidences to posts I've made about the Gen Pershing retaliation on Pancho Villa raid... AND my recent post about my relative that Schofield Barracks was named for... I present, the brief history of Wheeler Air Force base, Pearl Harbor Hawaii

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Major Wheeler had become well known for his daring reconnaissance and scouting flights in support of General Pershing's operations near ...
Monday, June 09, 2025

Still digging into my family tree to see if I'm related (extremely distantly) to people with famous last names... and just now, established that I'm related to the namesake of Prescott Arizona, William Hickering Prescott, a guy who wrote a book " The History of the Conquest of Mexico " so damn well that the founders of the city of Prescott named their city for him, and named streets for characters in his book

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Prescott is the county seat of Yavapai County, it was named in honor of historian William Hickling Prescott.  Richard McCormick was secretar...
Saturday, June 07, 2025

still doing some family tree research, and found I'm distantly related to the co-founder of the Eaton Corporation

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In 1896 he was in the Williams College yearbook In 1898, he was a volunteer in the New York infantry for the Spanish American War, signed up...
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Monday, April 21, 2025

It is not easy to get accurate info of the founders of the Cushman Scooter company.

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 Everett B Cushman and Clinton Cushman founded the company in 1901, they were cousins. In 1919, Everett was out, and that is about all there...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

the Bosch Magneto Ignition, it made the internal combustion engine feasible for powering the automobile. And due to the family tree project I'm working on, I found I'm related very distantly!

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  In 1897 a customer asked Bosch to customize a three-wheeler with a magneto ignition system.  Robert Bosch tasked his factory manager, Arno...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

While working on the family tree project, I found I'm related to Robert McCulloch (middle name, Paxton, and I think you know the rest) and Gregory Peck!

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I've already posted all about Robert P McCulloch, maker of chainsaws, cars, helicopters, superchargers, go cart engines His father in la...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

While working on my family tree (still) I'm looking to see if the famous last names in my ancestors, are also, ancestors of the famous people we are familiar with. Todays cool connections? Henry Fonda, and Alfred Hitchcock

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  Fonda's patriline originates with an ancestor from Genoa, Italy, who migrated to the Netherlands in the 15th century.  In 1642, a bran...
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Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Kevin Bacon has a new tv series getting released on Amazon Apr 3rd, and his character has a 71 Chevelle... good choice! And to my surprise, I find we are related, a common ancestor from Drinkstone Manor in the 1500s

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  https://www.familysearch.org/en/memories/memory/25132766 https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicholas-Bacon
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Saturday, March 01, 2025

during my family tree research, I found that one of my ancestors was a driver for a livery company in Detroit in 1887, according to the city directory.... and since library's keep some old maps, I can see exactly where that livery stable was, at 43 West Congress st

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  Above is the zoomed in map showing GF Case livery stable, and then zoomed out here's some other interesting companies in that neighbor...
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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Whoa.... I'm still working on my family tree... and just found how I'm related to Burt Munro!

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  I'll need to count how many generations back, but Robert Munro, the 14th Baron Foulis, and 17th Chief of Clan Munroe 1503–1547, born ...
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Sunday, February 02, 2025

I'm still working on my family tree... and finally made a break through on the one branch that had been impossible to find more info on... and my paternal grandmother's grandfather and great grandfather were bridge carpenters for the Michigan Central Railroad

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The Michigan Central Railroad had several wooden bridges, including the Baker Street segment of the Double Bridge in Detroit, the Kettle Cre...
Thursday, June 25, 2020

You can learn a lot if you have the time to do your family tree... and then risk wasting time trying to see if those last names that show up, are indeed connected to the people that made them famous. So, here's some famous people I learned I'm distantly related too

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Charles Goodyear, inventor of the rubber vulcanizing process (or he gets the credit for using it to make long lasting tires anyway, let...
Sunday, June 29, 2008

The life line (family tree / flow chart) of the American automobiles

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Click on this to see it much bigger, use Windows Picture and Fax Viewer or other software to see it really big This is one big picture! And...