In keeping with this time of year, this week’s theme is Taxes. Back in 1938, the president of the Dutchess County Historical Society, William Willis Reese, compiled public documents from the Fishkill area of Dutchess County that included deeds, mortgages, and lists of tax-payers from the eighteenth century. This publication was titled Eighteenth century records of…
This week’s theme is “When there’s a will there’s a way.” When I read it, my mind immediately focused on the word “will” instead of interpreting the phrase as overcoming adversity. As a genealogist, I love wills! Once you get through the legalese and the hard-to-read handwriting, wills can give a lot of insight into…
I feel almost like I’m cheating, writing about Ogden Talmadge again. He was mentioned already in an earlier post about his grandfather William Seward. The theme of this week though, is Names and he has one of my favorite names among my relatives. He got his name from his father Philander’s two lawyers who helped…