This Is What We Found

Welcome to our 60th Episode! We couldnt of thought of a better way to wrap up Walter Fest, but to talk about the family line of Richard Cross of NJ famed Cross Castle. Oh, and a little road named Clinton Road.

Keeping things light and creepy this week! We had an interesting time exploring the genealogy and history of one Elijah Bond and his sister-in-law Helen Peters and their role concerning the famous Ouija Board.

It has truly been our pleasure this week to wrap up our research into May S. Pepper, AKA Mary Ann Scannell - Vanderbilt. Having been immersed in the worlds of the Spiritualist movement, the Vanderbilt family and all of the craze over her marriage to Edward Ward Vanderbilt, who knew where this story would lead. Was she a con or did she have a gift? Either way, we feel we got to know her a little more intimately than we thought possible. Join us for this weeks Walter Fest special focus!

Such spooky fun this week as we recount a story immersed in the Spiritual movement of the 1800's into the early 1900s. This story is focused on a Psychic medium of the times Mary Ann "May" S Scannell Pepper Vanderbilt. Part 1 of 2!

Happy October everyone! Rolling into Walter Fest 2022, Char and Jack bring to you a family line adjacent story of the Booth Mummy! Actor John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln who was apprehended and killed in a VA barn, or was he? Many people claimed to see him or even be him. Walter Hubbell jumped in on the conspiracy to claim this. Oh, there is a Mummy, a traveling one. Was it Booth?

Apologies this week on our late upload of the epiosde it has been launched out into the netherworld, but alas. Here is Listener Ep 12, The Carney Family of Louisiana. Also featured The Whittaker/Whiteacre Family from Baltimore, MD.

As fall approaches this week Jack and Char make "Dutton Muffins" in honor of another maternal line, the Duttons. The muffins do no justice to this regal line going back to William the Conqueror and Odard, Ist Lord of Dutton and the first to use the surname.

We are BACK biotches! After a quiet summer, the girls are at it once again this week researching a family line that showed up in dna matches on a maternal line. Families going back to a Bartlett Hawkins Fitzgerald of Nelson County Virginia. Maybe you can be of help? We apologize in advance for our awkward silliness.

Wow! Our first year Podaversery! We had a great time this week revisiting our very first ep where we chatted about our family roots connected to the founding of Delco by a 9th GGrandparent, John Grubb . We also looked a little deeper into a man who may have had a horrific accident upon the landing of William Penn onto the Chester shore. What really happened?