Recent Posts Tagged With 'valk'

• Surname Saturday: VALK

  Posted on Saturday July 11th, 2009 at 11:38 in valk, surname saturday

  The VALK line is my main maternal line. I've been able to trace this line back nine generations (not including my own) to my 7th-great-grandfather, named Geert, thanks to patronymics. VALK is a surname that appears in many countries in Western Europ...

• My Brickwall Ancestor: Berber "Barbara" J. (DeJONG) VALK (1858 - 1934)

  Posted on Saturday February 28th, 2009 at 16:05 in valk, dejong, brickwall ancestors

  On January 5th of this year, I posted an article, "Who Are Our Brickwall Ancestors, and Why Aren't We Blogging About Them Regularly?" which was widely received. I fully intended to write about one of my brickwall ancestors, Levi Edward McLALLIN, dur...

• Friday Findings: McCLELLAN Pension Record, E-mails, Atlas Project, BORCHERS

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 04:00 in lewis, mcclellan, valk, atlas project

  I ordered the Civil War Pension Record for my 4th-great-grandfather, Levi E. McCLELLAN (McLELLAN, McLALLIN, etc.). That along with subscriptions for Internet Genealogy (renewal) and Discovering Family History (new) were some of my Christmas gifts th...

• Friday Findings: VALK, LEWIS, McCLELLAN, Markham Twp Ancestry

  Posted on Friday December 26th, 2008 at 20:45 in lewis, mcclellan, valk, friday findings

  I haven't done a Friday Findings post in a while, and as I'm slowly returning to posting more of my regular "columns", I thought I'd start here. Friday Findings is a feature I started last summer to record my weekly research finds and cousin connect...