Budds, Springers and Old Swedes Church
Date: July 4, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Budd Bailey is the keeper of the Budd family genealogy and recently came to Willmington to see Old Swedes Church. It may be that both sides of the family are related to the Swedes through the Springers. His quest to find his Swedish ancestors was written up by the News Journal – Backstory with [...]
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Bitten by the Genealogy Bug – discovering the Shelnutts
Date: July 4, 2007 | Discussion: No Comments
Like many before me, I have been bitten by the genealogy bug, all of which started with a quest to find out who the people were in an 1858 letter written to Sarah Derickson Harvey about getting a “low top wagon†and “expediting the Africanâ€. This is clearly a reference to the Ground Railroad which [...]