Month: May 2020
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The Plot Thickens!
The Mystery of Richard Elmer Person They mystery involving the burial of Richard Elmer Person runs deep and long. It remains an unsolved mystery to this very day! One should point out that Richard does not come up in the records for the Dallas Pauper’s Cemetery. The Medical Examiner’s office, who was in charge of […]
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3 New Pedigrees: London-Essex 01A, 01B & 01C
I was contacted by a a new member about adding his information to the Master Tree. His Surname is Babbs, the plural variation of our name. We have no idea why some families adopted the trailing “s” but they are definitely part of our extended family. His family traces back 9 Generations to Henry Babbs […]
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Episode 2: The DNA Waiting Game Begins Anew – Cornwall Edition
A candidate has stepped forward from the recently incorporated Cornwall Pedigree E and agreed to conduct a Y-DNA test for us to help prove our conclusions are right. So, a second test kit has been ordered and will soon be steaming it’s way across the Atlantic to England. As anyone who has been following our […]
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Ernest Babb – From Cornwall to Galveston
Ernest Babb (a descendant of DNA-10: The Celts of Cornwall & Cornwall Pedigree 02 living in Bristol) left his family behind in England and came to Galveston several years after the deadly hurricane of 1900 and worked as a House Carpenter. There was a giant project underway in the city at this time to raise […]
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Cornwall Pedigree E merges with Cornwall Pedigree 02
Having the Y-DNA test kit on its way to our DNA Candidate has caused a flurry of attention and today culminated in the merger of Cornwall Pedigree E with Cornwall Pedigree 02. It turns out that the Samuel Babb who is at the top of Pedigree E is the son of Thomas & Margery (Wadge) […]
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The Death of Fielding Babb
Fielding Babb is likely the most famous Babb in Barbados. I’ve enjoyed a number of his works of art over the years including the Barbados Village print I recently shared. I had stumbled across an artists site while working to add him to the Master Tree the other day and stumbled across his obituary. So, […]
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Welcome the Newest Member of the Babb Family
Kelsey Grace Babb hails from Tulsa, Oklahoma and is a beautiful little girl. Her father Austin is a fan of our site and wanted to shout his excitement to the rooftops. So, here is an around the world shot for them both! Kelsey, Congratulations! You have been born into the best Surname in the world!! […]
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The First Babbs of Barbados
I’m getting off the ground in my research of the Babbs of Barbados and am starting at the beginning and working my way through time towards modern day. A Brief history of Barbados Wikipedia says that the first English settlement was established as a proprietary colony and funded by Sir William Courten, a City of London merchant who acquired the […]
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The DNA Waiting Game Begins – Cornwall Edition
I was contacted tonight by a descendant of the line we know as Cornwall Pedigree 02. To date I have never met anyone of any Cornwall lineage that could help facilitate a Y-DNA test and I might have trouble sleeping tonight out of pure excitement. Why is that you ask? Well, we in the US […]
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Will Janan Babb-Vaughn please stand up?
This is another of my eBay finds and although it is much more modern than the work I typically do, something about it caught my eye and a week later it was at my house. It’s a post card sent to Janan Babb from her friend Del in 1949 while he was visiting the Maine […]