Thomas Pope-Elizabeth Gove-3rd Great Grandparents Wedding Anniversary

Family Tree History
Deitz-Pope-Gove Line
Anniversaries
Thomas Pope and Elizabeth Gove

 158th Wedding Anniversary 

3rd Great Grandparents 

Thomas & Elizabeth Pope

We all have 32 third Great Grandparents.
To this date I have discovered about 8 of these couples, which is roughly half of them.....

Today, October 31st, is the wedding anniversary of one of those eight couples without who myself and my siblings and their children would not exist:
Thomas Paschal Pope and Elizabeth Adaline  Gove, my 3rd great grandparents.

Today is the 158th anniversary of their marriage.

Elvis Aron Presley-12th Cousin

Family Tree History and Research
Deitz Family Line
Mayhew-Skiffe-Reaves Branch
Elvis Presley

A new discovery today!
As I was researching one of my lines from my mother's branches I was notified that one of my Family Tree programs found another rather well known relative.
I am amazed at how small the world really is and how humanity is so connected to one another.

The line is a long one and through researching the various other lines that connect to this one I discovered it is a blood line that not only goes back to our mutual ancestral great grandparents but also goes back further to some very interesting people. Read on for my discoveries.

Today I introduce you to our 12th Cousin, Elvis......

The Kashubian Exodus-The 1st Polish Settlers of North America-

Family History Research
Repinski Family Tree History
Repinski-Dulak/Dulek Line
My Kashubian Ancestors

My First Polish Settlers of North America 

"A Long Line of Kashubian Immigrant Ancestors" 

About a month ago I received a message from my cousin Shelby Repinski Ellison who just happened to be traveling abroad for work and she messaged me from Poland...the "Mother Land" of my dad's family.
To say I was a little jealous of her at this moment is just a bit of an understatement....

She asked if I knew of any of the areas where some of our family ancestors may have come from.
I have quite the list and I am sure that after sending numerous 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and more Great Grandparents and the places that they came from in Poland....she was probably saying "Oh why did I ask??" (inject big grin).

Some day I hope to make it to Poland and visit all of the places I have discovered in my research. I haven't talked to her since her return but I do hope that she got the opportunity to explore a bit.

As I was going through some of the family tree branches on my Repinski/Dulek side to find these towns for her, I decided to do a little more in depth research into one of the areas that quite a few of my ancestors came from.

I already knew from previous research that most of my dad's ancestry from his mother's Osowski side of the family and her mother's Kiedrowski side of the family all came from an area of Northwest Poland called "Kashubian Pomerania".
A distant cousin, Arthur Newkirk, who lives in North Carolina has helped me with this line by finding and adding some of my ancestors to my family tree on Geni.com which is where I have a tree connected to the "World Tree". The more ones line is filled in on the World Tree, the better one is able to connect to other relations through out the world and throughout history.

The more I dug into my family lines, the more I realised just how intimately KASHUBIA and POMERANIA are connected to my dad's family lines from both his father, Clarence Repinski and his mother Evelyn  Dulek Repinski starting in the late 1800s and establishing the bedrock of our family as we know it today.

As one write up in an article on the first settlers says very well:

The hopes and dreams of these immigrants began to be realized as they moved into the 1880’s. 
Their simple log homes became part of larger and more comfortable white frame houses. Their children moved to their own farms or to the city for work or to set up a business. 
Seven more Polish Catholic parishes were organized. 
Even though the "chain migration” from the Kaszuby region had begun to subside by the mid-1880’s, immigrants from the Austrian and Russian partitions of Poland began to find their way to Portage County - usually after a short stay in Chicago or Milwaukee while deciding where to locate. 
Perhaps they were drawn to this area by the large, successful Polish community with its Polish Catholic Churches which had its beginning almost 150 years ago.

Some of those immigrants to North America and in particular the ones that settled in Portage County Wisconsin that are my ancestors have the following surnames: Repinski, Dulek, Osowski, Riemer, Kowalski, Cyzewski, Kosobucki, Mrocki, Zblewski, Kiedrowski, Kynter, Polzcynski, Janta, Wosocki,


Come learn about Kashubia and Pomerania and those Kashubian Poles who emigrated away from their homeland to make new lives for themselves...a very large part of the ancestry of my Repinski/ Dulek family history...

October 22, 1930-Grandparents Clarence & Evelyn Repinski married

Family History and Research
Repinski Family History
Anniversaries and Birthdays

Today is the 86th Wedding Anniversary of my paternal grandparents, Clarence and Evelyn Repinski.
Conrad "Clarence" Jospeh Repinski married Evelyn Mary Dulek on this day, on October 22nd, 1930 in Plover, Portage County, Wisconsin.

Clarence was born May 23, 1907 in Sharon, Portage, Wisconsin to Joseph Repinski, age 33 & Elizabeth Stroik age 28.
He was the 6th of 12 children.
Clarence's siblings were:
Mary: 1898-died right after birth
George: 1899
Edward: 1901
Pearl: 1903-
Loyd: 1905
Clara: 1909
Dorothy: 1911
Theordora: 1913
Alwine: 1914
Evelyn: 1918
Regina: 1920

Evelyn was born April 26th, 1907 in Plover, Portage, Wisconsin to John Dukek, age 30 and Hedwig Kowalski, age 22.
She would be the 3rd of 12 children.
Evelyn's siblings were:
Chester: 1904
Johanna: 1906
Joseph: 1908
Irene: 1910
Maurice: 1911
Beatrice: 1913
Theresa: 1916
Isabelle: 1918
Angeline: 1920
Hedwig: 1922
John: 1925

Clarence and Evelyn would go on to have 10 children and 32 grandchildren (and many great and great great grandchildren to this day)  during their 86 years together:

From left to right top row: Mary, Althea, Margaret, Loretta, Clarence, Evelyn, Maurice, James,
Bottom Row seated: Richard, Shirley, Robert (Missing is Charles)

The ten children (and grandchildren) of Clarence Repinski and Evelyn Dulek Repinski:
Maurice (my father)
(Jane, John, James, Jackie, Jeff)
Loretta
(Robert, Donald)
James
(Diane, Kenneth, Alan, Thomas, Dale)
Margaret
(Linda, Karen, James, Christy)
Charles
(Lynn, Joseph)
Althea
(David, Audrey, Timothy, Amy, Jeffery
Mary
(Connie, Richard, Laura, Scott)
Shirley
(Danielle, Michelle, Kevin)
Richard
(Barbara)
Robert
(Shelby)


My Grandfather, Clarence, died on July 21, 1992
My Grandmother, Evelyn died on February 16, 2000

Happy 86th Anniversary in heaven Grandpa and Grandma!
We all Miss you both and love you so much....

Jacqueline Kennedy (1st Lady)-13th Cousin

Family Tree History & Research
Deitz-Pope Family Line
Smith/Angell Branch
New Discovery: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy-13th Cousin


Today while researching one of my ancestral branches in my dad's family tree and then my mom's family tree I discovered a line that connects both of my family lines to one of the most popular 1st ladies that ever lived.

I was looking into my polish family lines and first discovered that one of my lines from my dad's Repinski side of my ancestry goes back to the Polish-Lithuanian noble Radziwill line in the 1600s.

From that line I drilled down through the centuries and discovered that I had a 13th cousin thrice removed named Antoni Stanislaw Albert Radziwill.

Read on for my discovery....

Robert Cushman-11th Great Grandfather

Family History & Research

Robert Cushman
11th Great Grandfather
(Responsible for the Charter of the Mayflower)


Since discovering my family ancestry from my mother and her grandparents, Henry Deitz & Grace Pope, back to Plymouth Mass. and the Mayflower Pilgrims, I have found many ancestral great grandparents and relatives that have English, Scottish and Irish roots.

Robert Cushman is one of those ancestral great grandparents.

Though Robert was not on the Mayflower and is not one of the 1st settlers of Plymouth Colony, he is treated as such in the history of the Pilgrims, as without his assistance, this chapter in the history of the world might never have been written.

Come along with me and meet one of the men responsible for the the Charter of the Mayflower and the sowing of Early Colonial America....

Ancestry DNA Primer

Family Tree History & Research
DNA/Ancestry
General Mayflower Ancestry
Cushman Family Line

DNA...
The building blocks of who we are as human beings.
I have often wondered how these building blocks of "us" can tell us about our ancestry.

As I am researching the history of another of my ancestors, my 11th Great Grandfather, Robert Cushman, I came across a very interesting article on how our DNA as a species and its mutations through history has resulted in pretty much everyone who has English-European ancestry.

The fossil record places human origins in Africa some 150,000 years ago, but science continues to search for details about the incredible journey that took Homo sapiens from Africa to the far reaches of the Earth.
How did each of us end up where we are?
Why do we have such a wide variety of colors and features?

Through the eons of time, the full story of human ancestry remains written in our genes. When DNA is passed from one generation to the next, most of it is recombined by the processes that give each of us our individuality. But some parts of the DNA chain remain largely intact through the generations, altered only occasionally by random mutations, which become what are called genetic markers. The order in which these markers occur allows geneticists to trace our common evolutionary time line back many generations.

Different populations carry distinct mutation, or genetic markers. Identifying and following the markers back through generations reveals a relationship shared by all humans, best conceptualized in the form of a genetic tree. Today, thousands of diverse branches, corresponding to unique human groups, can be followed backward to their common African root more than 100 millennia ago.

The following missive is a fairly easy read and a good introduction to how these genetic markers can trace our ancestry back to the very beginnings of time and the birth of the human race.

I recently purchased a "23 & ME" DNA Testing Kit and plan on submitting my DNA sample soon.

The focus of the following article is some of the specific DNA genetic markers, that through time, resulted in me and my siblings and their children from our ancestry from our 11th great grandfather.

Mostly everyone with European ancestry will also have most of the same markers.....

Today In My Family History-Battle of Hastings

Family Tree History & Research
Ancient History
Dietz-Pope Family Branch
The Battle of Hastings-13 October 1066


The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England. It took place approximately 7 miles (11 kilometres) northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of Battle, East Sussex, and was a decisive Norman victory.

Many of my ancestral Great Grandfathers and Great Uncles and Cousins that I have discovered through my mother's line fought in this battle that changed the course of history for England and the entire world for all time, most of them being on the side of William.
The Norman influence on the world as we know it today is such that almost every facet of life has some Norman origin......Read on: