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I Wandered into a Quandary
I’m determined to finish the Lincoln lineage book I’ve been working on. Yet, all weekend, I worked on one of my husband’s lines. A question was asked, a…
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Alicia M Prater
George and Tillie Lincoln of Mills Co., Iowa
Their children and grandchildren
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Genealogy takes a touch of stubbornness and a heap of endurance
I found a lead on the Maertz-Demler line
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Alicia M Prater

March 2024

The life of Edward Maertz (1917-1985)
This mini-biography is of my grandfather, Edward Maertz. He was born to Russian-German immigrants Peter Maertz and Marie Demler in Wisconsin in 1917. He…
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Alicia M Prater
The children and grandchildren of Jonathan Prather (d. 1736) and Elizabeth Bigger
Jonathan Prather II (or Prater) was born before 1666 in Calvert Co., Maryland, to Jonathan Prather and Jane (McKay) Prather. He is thought to have…
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Another Lincoln death in China - Missionary Annie Glyde Macrum Lincoln, 1923
I ran across another interesting headstone notation - this time a husband and wife where the wife died in China and is not buried where she is…
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Alicia M Prater
Children and grandchildren of John Prater (d. 1547) of Wiltshire
An excerpt from Cousins of Nunney Castle: Four Hundred Years of Praters from England to Indiana, now available in paperback.
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February 2024

What happened to Cornelia Martin?
Tracing records from Connecticut to a Vermont asylum
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How did an American end up in Shanghai in 1867?
Tracking 25-year-old George E. Martin from Connecticut
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Rev. Ebenezer Devotion (1684-1741) of Massachusetts Colony
Ebenezer Devotion was born about 1684 in what is now Brookline, Massachusetts (baptized October 19, 1684, in Roxbury, Massachusetts), to John Devotion…
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Alicia M Prater
The wives and children of Israel Arnold, Jr. (1678~1758)
The Arnold line is part of My Lineage from the Roots Up, vol. 1 (read for free on Kindle Unlimited). All references are available in the published book…
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Alicia M Prater

January 2024

My link to the Adams family
No, not THAT one!
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