I’m so excited to see that (finally) the Payne DNA Project has a new administrator! We might be able to connect to some more family with John’s DNA kit at FTDNA. The new administrator is Fallon Payne. She is also looking to reach her goal of gathering 50 Payne’s who have done DNA testing, in…
Category: Family Stories
My dad and husband are 10th cousins! (aka The French Connection)
Mark the day, because today is the day (well, actually yesterday, as I was distracted in the middle of posting this) that I found that my husband and my father are related – 10th cousins! You can see just how in the image below. Cruz Jr is my husband’s father and Chester is my grandfather. …
Horse thieves – Horse Regulators of 1857 – Lynching – A Reign of Terror – Brave McCollough ends it.
Here is a story that was written back in the 1850’s about one of our ancestors, Canada McCollough II. The area they lived in there in Iowa started being plagued with horse thefts, and finally a group of men got together and became what they called the Regulators. They were determined to rid the…
“The Corporon Family Tree” Book
George William Corporon worked many years compiling information on the Corporon family. In 1943 he published the first version of “The Corporon Family Tree” book and then the 2nd update version in 1954. >>> View/Download Here (6.5mb) <<< Per a letter written in 1954, to all the Corporon family, J Ray Martin writes: “We indeed…