Our Family Forest

Welcome to our blog and family tree. So you don't get lost in the forest, see the path markers below.

Menu
  • Our Tree
  • Family Stories
    • Corporon
    • Figueroa
    • Longoria
    • McCollough
    • Payne
    • Walker
  • Military
    • Civil War
    • Korean War
    • Revolutionary War
    • Vietnam War
    • World War I
    • World War II
  • Cemetery
  • Flags & Crests
  • Calendar
  • Newsletter
    • Newsletter Archives
    • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Log
Menu

Category: Family Stories

Payne DNA Project update

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Bethany

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…

Read more

My dad and husband are 10th cousins! (aka The French Connection)

Posted on January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 by Bethany

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. …

Read more

Horse thieves – Horse Regulators of 1857 – Lynching – A Reign of Terror – Brave McCollough ends it.

Posted on June 11, 2020January 5, 2021 by Judy McCollough

  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…

Read more

“The Corporon Family Tree” Book

Posted on June 2, 2020June 2, 2020 by Bethany

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…

Read more
  • Previous
  • 1
  • 2

More Topics

  • All Things DNA
  • Research & Resources
    • Why we LOVE Ancestry.com
    • Research & Resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NUlABvwVTQ

Recent Posts

  • Kimball Cemetery Relocation
  • Revolutionary War / List of Family Members
  • To McCollough Researchers
  • Corporon line for Daughters of the Republic of Texas
  • Czech Immigrant Database

Paying the Bills

Genealogy research can get a bit expensive, so please help support us by checking out these offers. Thank you!

Search Military Records - Fold3

Discover you family history through historical newspapers at Newspapers.com

Is your sneaky browser blocking these awesome, hand-picked genealogy related ads? That's ok lol!

NAVIGATION

  • Our Tree
  • Family Stories
    • Corporon
    • Figueroa
    • Longoria
    • McCollough
    • Payne
    • Walker
  • Military
    • Civil War
    • Korean War
    • Revolutionary War
    • Vietnam War
    • World War I
    • World War II
  • Cemetery
  • Flags & Crests
  • Calendar
  • Newsletter
    • Newsletter Archives
    • Subscribe
  • Contact
  • Log
©2025 Our Family Forest | WordPress Theme by Superbthemes.com | Powered by RoyalWebhosting.net