Month: March 2019
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A new DNA line…sort of
I always get excited when the results from a new DNA test come in. There is always the potential to shake things up. That is certainly the case with the latest results I received from a member who has a strong paper trail inside the Green Men of Maryland Babb lineage. DNA has a way […]
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Women’s Liberation 2019
I have spent the last several weeks coming through 2500 photos of people in the Master Tree and trying to normalize the names presented in the photos. I recently posted about how cumbersome that is, but something else has struck me that I’d like to share. On a recent trip to Lake Travis near Austin, […]
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Most American Adoptees Can’t Access Their Birth Certificates. That Could Be About to Change.
For anyone whose family has been touched by adoption, you likely already know how it is often almost impossible to understand your family history. Over the last few years I’ve spent an extraordinary amount of time trying to help adoptees locate information on their Ancestry. This often comes with mixed results and DNA research often […]
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Coming Soon: Babb, Thomas (1841-1915). Diaries and Notes, 1905-1912
The Babb Family Association has contracted with the University of Illinois to digitize the Diaries and Notes of Thomas Babb so that they may be used for Research and an in depth view of an English Immigrant who came to America and lived “The Dream”. Until now the little known manuscript has lived in obscurity […]
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Arabella Aurelia (Babb) Mansfield – 1st Woman admitted to the Bar in the United States
Article from Iowa Wesleyen College with a biography of Belle and info about the dedication of a sculpture of her at the campus: First woman admitted to the Bar in the United States in 1869 Arabella (Belle) Babb Mansfield, of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, passed the bar exam on June 15, 1869 to become the first […]