This Is What We Found

This weeks episode carries a conversation concerning just what your DNA matches can tell you and there importance to revealing your true family stories. The girls get into a long hard family story involving the Stuart/Graham lineage. What will the big reveal entail and does Nicholas Cage love his smarties? This is what we found...

Join us this week as we dive back into Chester Pennsylvania in the world of New Sweden and the earliest Swedish settler Joran Kyn, who eventually started the Keen family line here on the East Coast! William Penn once again makes an appearance and Commodore John Barry. How exciting it was for Jackie and Charlotte to find this! Just who is James Sandle-hands?

In this weeks episode Jackie & Charlotte finish up the horrifying tale of Mrs. Elizabeth Ashmead and her Philadelphia, South Jersey baby farming syndicate. Unfortunately, not every story you find in your family tree is a pleasant one, some are just as gory as it gets! Genealogy can occasionally be scary! Does anyone else feel the fall weather in the air?

This week the ladies tackle a pretty dark topic in what they found in their family tree. A baby farm syndicate carried out by Elizabeth Ashmead in Victorian/Edwardian Philadelphia. Content warning for some. Tune in to see how Elizabeth winds up in Eastern State Penitentiary! Researching family genealogy doesn't always allow the researcher to find happy stories, unfortunately.

Charlotte and Jackie dig into their first listener ancestry episode featuring the Gillikin family with deep roots in Carteret County, North Carolina. Discussion includes George Decatur Gillikin and his pet alligator and some random info about Blackbeard the pirate. Was he a real person and are the stories about the Hammock House in Beaufort true?

This weeks episode finds Charlotte and Jackie chatting about their family ancestry that goes back to the founding of Fairfield County, Connecticut. A family named Wakeley, P.T.Barnum himself and maybe some accusations of witchcraft. Has anyone ever heard of the famous Independence Day deer?

In this weeks genealogy episode Jackie and Charlotte talk about Sisco/Taylor family lines from Baltimore, MD. Freemasonry ties and a Regalia business. Also, Druid Bitters?

In Today's episode, Charlotte and Jackie talk about our 3rd Great Grandfather named William Wheeler Hubbell, his inventions, the $4 Stella coin and some family scandals in Washington D.C. and Philadelphia.

Stream with us in our 2nd episode where we talk more about our Chester, Pennsylvania family names. Topics include Caleb Pusey, Richard Flower, the Stevenson and Lynch families of Chester and of course, William Penn.

Sisters Charlotte and Jackie talk about family ties in Chester, Delaware County in Pennsylvania. Old family names included in this episode are Grubb, Flower, Hubbell, Stevenson. William Penn is a key player in this premiere episode as well.