Month: August 2020
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Too Big For Our Britches
We have outstripped the capabilities of Family Tree Maker 2019 (FTM) and now find it necessary to split the trees up into 3 separate trees. This move comes with mixed emotions for me and I’ve struggled against it for the last several years. In 2001 I started converting Jean A. Sargent’s book Babb Families of […]
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Solving a Derbyshire Babbs Mystery
I was contacted on LinkedIn in by a member of a Babbs (Plural) Family who couldn’t get any further back in her tree than a John Babbs (born 1816) and she was looking in the Yorkshire or Liverpool (Lancaster County) areas. She was looking to find out more about John’s ancestry and find out which […]
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Announcement: 11th Proven Y-DNA Lineage
The results are in from our Bavarian Babb Family member and unsurprisingly no match was found to any of the existing 10 established lines of Babbs throughout the US and England. These early Babb immigrants settled in Pennsylvania when they came to America like so many others from their country. As is our tradition I […]
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Announcement: 10th Proven Y-DNA Lineage
The waiting game for the two outstanding Y-DNA tests from Cornwall Pedigree 02 have come in and are resoundingly different than the other 9 established lines of Babbs throughout the US and England. But the tests provided a match for each other! While I was waiting on the results I took a deep look into […]