by Robert Inhoff | Mar 13, 2017 | Billing, Research
In March 2017 I presented a lecture on “20 Tools I Used to Break Down a Brick Wall I Never Knew I Had.” Following extensive research on my paternal grandmother’s family, I discovered in September 2015 that my father was adopted! Thus began a...
by Robert Inhoff | Nov 18, 2016 | Goff, Research
A few years ago I received the will of my third great grandfather, Abner Goff (1782-1857). For more than three decades Abner Goff was a Methodist Circuit Rider, serving churches in central and north central Ohio. For me three things about the experience of...
by Robert Inhoff | Oct 9, 2015 | Research, Wales
There is conflicting evidence regarding the parents of John Gifford who married Comfort Hart. John Gifford died in Little Compton, Rhode Island on 18 Dec 1802 “in his 95th year.” One line claims Christopher Gifford and Deborah Perry as his parents; the...
by Robert Inhoff | Jul 17, 2015 | Research, Wales
We have always known Ruth’s grandmother as Susan Hervey Wales Rollason. In researching her birth documentation, we found a record of a Dorothy Wales on Family Search, born to George R Wales and Mabel Hervey in Brookline, MA on 2 November 1889. ...