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R. L. (Dick) and Maralyn Tolman, of Anacortes, WA 98221
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
–Marcus Tullius Cicero
He who careth not from whence he came, careth little whither he goeth.
–Daniel Webster
SOME RECENT ESSAYS
October 2026: New Essay!
‘The Voigt Family of South Carolina: Finding a Missing Father’
November 2025:
‘The Boydston-Snow Connection, Part 2’
October 2025:
‘The Pattons of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania’
August 2025:
‘The Boydston-Snow Connection, Part 1’
April 2025:
‘Two Duncan Families: Scotland to Pennsylvania and
Kentucky/Missouri’
December 2024:
‘The Hampshire Origins of the New England Terry Families’
September 2024: Revised essay after infusion of new DNA data!
‘The Ancestry of James Spencer Jr. (1840-1925) of Chester County, Pennsylvania’
June 2024:
‘Who Were the Parents of Simon S. Case, b. 1811 New York’
October 2021: Revised essay! …revisions to the Chester Co., PA and Ontario Terrys.
‘Addendum 2. Descendants of Thomas Terry (1711-1792) of Bucks Co., Pennsylvania’
March 2021:
‘The Descendants of Johann Martin (Hannes) Schiedel (1770-1846)’
‘The Ancestry of James Spencer Jr. (1840-1925) of Chester County, Pennsylvania’