{"id":18,"date":"2012-06-15T21:32:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T21:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:51:26","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to our site for sourced genealogical histories!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 16pt;\">We hope you can benefit from our work.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 14pt;\"><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\">R. L. (Dick) and Maralyn Tolman, <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> of<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #003300;\"> Anacortes, WA 98221<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Please feel free to comment and provide additions or corrections (you must be logged in).<br \/>There is comment box at the bottom of every essay&#8211;scroll all the way down! <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><u>If you use our research, please cite us<\/u> (29deadpeople.com)!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20pt;\"><span style=\"color: #582959;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.3;\">Genealogy without sources is called mythology.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20pt;\"><span style=\"color: #315a63;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.3;\">To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. \u00a0 For what is the worth of human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?<br \/>\u2013Marcus Tullius Cicero<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 20pt;\"><span style=\"color: #801e00;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.3;\">He who careth not from whence he came, careth little whither he goeth.<br \/>\u2013Daniel Webster<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 14pt;\">If you are interested in more detail on <em>DNA\/genealogy<\/em>, perhaps you will want to watch my recent webinar on <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 14pt;\">youtube<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial Narrow'; font-size: 14pt;\"> as a part of the TMCC Library webinars.\u00a0 Here is the link: \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yNoJMHWnSeU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/yNoJMHWnSeU<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"Normal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Vicennial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"820\" height=\"600\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><span style=\"color: #e02b2b;\"><strong>SOME RECENT ESSAYS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #064357;\">November 2025: New essay! <strong><br \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=3071\"><span style=\"color: #4343a8;\"> &#8216;The Boydston-Snow Connection, Part 2\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #064357;\">October 2025: New essay! <strong><br \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=2988\"><span style=\"color: #4343a8;\"> &#8216;The Pattons of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #064357;\">August 2025: New essay!\u00a0 <br \/>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=2965\"><span style=\"color: #4343a8;\"> &#8216;The Boydston-Snow Connection, Part 1\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #064357;\">April 2025: New essay! <strong><br \/>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=2894\"><span style=\"color: #4343a8;\"> &#8216;Two Duncan Families: Scotland to Pennsylvania and<br \/>Kentucky\/Missouri\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #064357;\">December 2024: <strong><br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=2894\"><span style=\"color: #4343a8;\"> &#8216;The Hampshire Origins of the New England Terry Families\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #064357;\">September 2024: Revised essay after infusion of new DNA data!<strong><br \/>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4343a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=2507\">\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=2315\"><span style=\"color: #4343a8;\"> &#8216;The Ancestry of James Spencer Jr. (1840-1925) of Chester County, Pennsylvania\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #064357;\">June 2024: New essay!<strong><br \/>\u00a0<a style=\"color: #4343a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=2507\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;Who Were the Parents of Simon S. Case, b. 1811 New York&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #064357;\">October 2021: Revised essay!\u00a0 &#8230;revisions to the Chester Co., PA and Ontario Terrys.<strong>\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=1371\"><span style=\"color: #4343a8;\"><br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0&#8216;Addendum 2. Descendants of Thomas Terry (1711-1792) of Bucks Co., Pennsylvania&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #064357;\">March 2021: New essays!<strong><br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=2287\"><span style=\"color: #4343a8;\">&#8216;The Descendants of Johann Martin (Hannes) Schiedel (1770-1846)\u2019<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/29deadpeople.com\/wp\/?page_id=2315\"><span style=\"color: #4343a8;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8216;The Ancestry of James Spencer Jr. (1840-1925) of Chester County, Pennsylvania\u2019<\/span><\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #064357;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hope you can benefit from our work.R. L. 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