A Tale of Another Elusive John
Using DNA, oral history, and the paper trail to track down John Walter Allen, my great great grandfather.
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Started From the Bottom | Rider Fields is My 4x Great Grandfather
All I had was a name, Sarah Vann Rogers, and nothing else. Here’s how I discovered my tie to a Cherokee slaveholder.
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Finding Isaac Rogers – Civil War Veteran, U.S. Deputy Marshal, Relative?
Isaac Rogers was killed April 21,1897 at a train depot in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory. Oral history said I was somehow related to him. But how?
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