The Heritage Huntress

Katie Sandwina, "The Lady Hercules," lifting three men Bain News Service / Public domain It is incredibly difficult to narrow...

A while ago I traced the parents of my 3great-grandfather Abraham Amos , determining them to be Thomas Amos and Amy Dunn. Since then, I have...

The Amos family. Frank Amos is the young man on the left. In her typescript , Aunt Elsie remembered that her uncle Frank Amos was “ki...

Now that I have explained my reasons for believing the parents of George Amos to be Abraham Amos and Isabella Cock, and have explored...

Not long ago, I was listening to one of the many genealogy podcasts to which I subscribe (so many that I don’t recall which one brought me ...

All that I wrote in the previous post about George Amos’ parents and siblings had actually been researched some time ago, definitely befor...

Ordinarily I wouldn’t describe myself as someone who has trouble focusing, but lately—since the end of summer, in fact—I have felt like I ha...

A little over a dozen or so years ago, my younger self received a letter. It had come airmail—“par avion” read a sticker on the envelope—all...

Here’s another article about a wedding on the Amos side of my family. This time the groom is a son of my great-grandmother Flora (Amos) Und...

For the same reasons articulated in the previous post , here is another Wedding Wednesday . This article announces the marriage o...

I have already discussed in some detail the lives of George and Elizabeth AMOS after their marriage, when they were living on Wallasea...