The Death of My Father
The End My dad Tom died on June 27th 2025 from complications due to liver disease. The story is that he was exposed to chemicals at work that damaged his liver and so the clock has been ticking since then.…
Category General_Thompson
100 Years of Thompsons
My Grandfather’s birthday is 49 years and six days before mine. In my early memory, we celebrated our birthdays together. We shared a birth month, and I inherited his lazy eye, which left me with an eye patch and corrective…
Paper Trail Thompson – Ancestors by Cousinship
At 23 and me, you’ll often get an idea of Cousinship with a match request. It will say something like “estimated 4th cousin with a range of 3rd to 5th cousin” or “5th to distant cousin”. Some lines in my…
Four Years On
Time for a pep talk. About four years ago, I started this blog to keep track of my progress finding my Thompson family. A pretty narrow scope. Straight up the male line. That was my intent. Once I entered the…
Connections to Others in Grant Indiana
I decided to spend some more time looking at the man from Butler PA that I can follow fairly well. John Burgess Hollingsworth. This time I focused on histories. Using three histories of Grant county I was able to figure…
Levi Pension Files
Quite a long time ago now, I ordered Levi Thompson’s pension records. Not the full pension, but a partial pension. It was listed as the pension most appropriate for genealogists. I think it’s an awesome thing, but I was disappointed…
Obituaries and Findings
I ordered several obituaries form The Anderson Public Library for Henry Williamson, Ida Williamson (Thompson), Rena Frances Thompson (Tyler), Mattie Thompson (Clifford), James Thompson and Mary Thompson (Fennimore). Trying to get more information about these people and their families. I was…
The Case for Butler Pennsylvania
When I first found out about Butler Pennsylvania (after ordering Levi Thompsons state records from Indiana). I was really really excited. I thought I would surely find him there. Since then, I’ve been all over the place trying to locate…
Task Mastering
I was printing off my forms for death records for Rosa Blades and Henry Williamson (see task list) when it struck me that there was more I could do at the Anderson public library. In the past I ordered obituaries for…
Robert Thompson and Ann Kers(e)y
This is the Bermuda triangle of family names. I need to make this note for myself because it can easily become really confusing. I was researching John B Hollingsworth and family (Hollingsworths Next Door) and it turns out that they…