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Are These The Right Smiths?
I’m working on my brother-in-law’s La Grange line. It’s well documented and goes back to the originally immigrant, Omie de La Grange, who arrived in New Amsterdam in the mid-1600s. The problem is...
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Revisiting the Smith Lagrange Conundrum
I’ve posted a couple of times about a research problem involving John Lagrange who died before 1840. He was the son of Elias “Jellis” Lagrange and Annatie Van Patten, of Albany Co., NY. In the 1840...
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That Darn Smith Family!
I’m reassessing the Smith La Grange connection. I’ve got a hypothesis…not really a theory since I can’t prove any of it. Yesterday, it dawned on me that John La Grange’s wife, Miss Unknown Smith,...
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These Death Certificates Complicate Things
I thought it would be a nice addition to my brother-in-law’s Christmas present if I found his Higgins line. So many databases have been added to the web since I last tackled this line two years. I...
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Higgins? No, O’Leary: Part One
I’ve been working on my brother-in-law’s Murphy-Higgins line for a few years. While I was able to find many generations of research done on both his Boisvert and La Grange lines, the Murphy-Higgins...
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Fearless Females: First Name Still Unknown
[Fearless Females, 21st of May, Brick Walls] It’s not enough that I have my own family tree to work on. I also do my brother-in-law’s La Grange-Boisvert tree. The line goes back to the 1600s with the...
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