Category: Books: Babb Unabridged
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Babb Unabridged: 3rd Edition Now Available in Print & Ebook
Get ready to dive into the exhilarating saga of The Lions of the Sea! For more than four centuries, a name has roared across the oceans! It pays tribute to the legendary Fishing Master, the valiant Sheriff, the tavern keep, the butcher, the father, the Pirate with a soft heart, the terrible ghost that haunts the shore looking…
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Announcement: Babb Unabridged, 3rd Edition is coming soon, in Print!
Once upon a time, in the realm of Babb knowledge and history, there existed a grand library of first editions, bound in leather and etched with the wisdom of ages. These tomes were cherished, for they held the essence of a lineage, a tale of Phillip’s kin from the green lands of England. Nine winters…
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27 Books of Babb Unabridged 2nd Ed now available for purchase and download
All trees are now represented in the collection including all American, Canadian, English and Bavarian Babb trees. One book on Bathsheba Hussey’s Ancestry is outstanding and will be coming soon. But first, I’m going to take a well deserved week off. This project has stretched on for nearly a year and I want to pause…
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Babb Unabridged, 2nd Edition has just released
The first Volume which will eventually contain 12 books has just released to the website. Together they include a complete discussion of the family of Phillip Babb of the Isles of Shoals (1). This line is just too massive to get the whole picture in a single book. Here is a brief rundown of what…
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9,650 pages and counting
I took a break from formatting books to step back and chart my progress. I am aghast at the proportions of the world we know as Babb. I’ve now completed 20 volumes totaling 9,650 pages and have a ways to go to get to the end…as if the world of Babb has limits. I feel…
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“Babb Unabridged” donated to libraries
I’ve donated a complete set (all 15 volumes) of Babb Unabridged to the Stewart Bell, Jr. Archives of the Handley Library in Winchester, VA. This is the permanent home of Jean A. Sargent’s papers and the library was extremely instrumental in the digitization of those records. So, this was a natural place to have a…
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Babb Unabridged: The Big Picture
They say a picture is worth a 1,000 words, but in this case it speaks volumes. I put this picture together for my LinkedIn page and thought I’d share it with everyone.
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It’s Finished! Babb Unabridged: Special Offer
Volume 14 & 15 round out the FINAL installments of the trees outlined by Ian Henry Babb and are on sale now via Create Space and will be available in the next few hours on Amazon.com. Links are provided below for more information. With the addition of these volumes, the English Babb lineages (Vol 8-15)…
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Book Announcement: Vol 13: Babb Families of Devonshire
Volume 13 of the Babb Unabridged Series is now available! This installment is all about the many fold lines of Babbs in Devonshire. The book is available for sale using these links to Create Space and via Amazon. In this volume we begin to explore the lineages that are NOT yet associated with the 7 known Y-DNA lineages…
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Book Announcement: Vol 12: Gryphons of Halberton Devon
Volume 12 of the Babb Unabridged Series is now available! This installment takes a deep look into the 7th Genetically distinct Babb lineage. The book is available for sale using these links to Create Space and also via Amazon. The Gryphons of Halberton, Devon are the 7th DNA-Proven Lineage of Babbs. This 7th DNA-Proven lineage is also known as…
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Book Announcement: Vol 11: Good Shepherds of Hatherleigh Devon
Volume 11 of the Babb Unabridged Series is now available! This installment takes a deep look into the 6th Genetically distinct Babb lineage. The book is available for sale using these links to Create Space and also via Amazon. The Good Shepherds of Hatherleigh, Devon are the 6th DNA-Proven Lineage of Babbs. The market in Hatherleigh sells sheep, cattle…
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Book Announcement: Vol 10: Falcons of Fremington Devon
Volume 10 of the Babb Unabridged Series is now available! This installment takes a deep look into the 5th Genetically distinct Babb lineage. The book is available for sale using these links to Create Space and also via Amazon. The Falcons of Fremington, Devon is the 5th DNA-Proven lineage of Babbs. The mascot and crest draws upon a popular…
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Book Announcement: Vol 09: Dragons of Somerset
Volume 09 of the Babb Unabridged Series is now available! This installment looks deeply into the 4th Genetically distinct Babb lineage, which has its roots in Trull & Pitminster in Somerset England. 18 months ago when I first started working on this volume I had no idea how deep the roots ran in England. I was…
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The Babbs of Devon, England
At long last I have completed my canvassing of the Babb families of Devon and thus of the Babbs of England. As expected the great county of Devon holds a number of surprises. The most surprising of which is that at least 3 distinct unrelated lineages (The Falcons, The Good Shepherds and The Gryphons) of Babbs…
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The Gryphons (of Halberton, Devon, England)
Today I am introducing a previously unknown Babb lineage, which I have deemed the Gryphons. This line was recently DNA proven and becomes the 3rd independent lineage of Babbs in the County of Devon and the 7th overall. As I mentioned in my posts The Somerset Dragons (of Somerset, England), The Falcon Babbs (of Devon,…
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The Good Shepherds (of Hatherleigh, Devon, England)
Today we come to the tiny market town of Hatherleigh, which is not much more than the crossroads to Okehampton, Holsworthy, Black Torrington & Petrockstow (say that 3 times fast). It is the smallest town in Devon and lies about 20 miles to the south of the Falcon Babbs of Fremington. It is in this community…
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The Falcon Babbs (of Devon, England)
Today I’d like to introduce you to the first DNA proven lineage of Devon, which is also known as Devon Pedigree 01. We stumbled across this tree in one of our early DNA attempts when we didn’t yet understand the complexity of the Babb line in Devon. We had mistakenly believed that we could connect Phillip Babb…
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The Babbs of West Midlands, England
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county, or in other words a city that is also a county. In 2014 the West Midlands boasted a population of 2,808,356 and stood as the second largest county in England. If you think about it for just a moment you already know which county outranks it. The city of Birmingham lies within…
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The Babbs of Staffordshire, England
I have struggled so much with this seemingly endless collection of Jeffrey Babbs. No where else in England have I seen such a confusing array of similarly named people. I’ve done my best to make sense of it all and am very pleased to have finally completed canvassing Staffordshire County, which lies in the Midlands…
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The Somerset Dragons (of Somerset, England)
The DNA waiting game ended today, with an early Christmas present from Family Tree DNA. The results on our test candidate whose lineage originates in Somerset came back and matched on 36 of 37 Genetic Markers. This is exactly what you would expect to see of two 5th Cousins taking this test. This becomes our…
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The Babbs of London, England
London is an ancient city, founded almost 2,000 years ago by the Romans. It is the Capital and most populous city in England. It has grown continually over the years and now encompasses an enormous urban area, known as Greater London containing 8.6 Million people. Place names have changed greatly as time has proceeded, so…
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The Babbs of Lincolnshire, England
It’s Thursday, so this must be Lincolnshire, England. As I trod along the path laid out by Ian Babb, I come to Lincolnshire, which is a county along the east coast of England and neighbors Leicestershire and is not far from Staffordshire and is also a part of the region known as the East Midlands. It lies…
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The Babbs of Leicestershire, England
Next up is the County of Leicestershire, England, which is named through what used to be its chief city, Leicester. Like Bristol, Leicester has now been made into it’s own County. But in the timeframe we are exploring they were one in the same place. Leicestershire is a landlocked county in the English Midlands which…
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The Babbs of Hampshire, England
Continuing my review of the Pedigrees outlined by Ian Babb (pictured left), Hampshire was the home of a single Pedigree of Babbs, that appear to have terminated. The family originally from Portsmouth, Hampshire appear to have immediately moved to Kent in the Southeast corner of the country. Born to the family were 4 girls and…
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The Babbs of Gloucestershire, England
It’s Wednesday, so this must be Gloucestershire! OK, I know Devon comes next alphabetically, but Devon is a beast with 31 of the 74 pedigrees. So, I’ve decided to come back to that at the end of this series. Sometimes referred to as Gloucester, this county takes in the tip of the Bristol Channel and…
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The Babbs of Cornwall, England
Continuing my series about the Babbs throughout England, we now come to the county of Cornwall, which is the very South West tip of England. Cornwall borders Devon, which is where the lion share of Babbs in the country originate. So, it is an important component to understand the big picture. Here we find an…
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The Babbs of Buckinghamshire, England
Along with the extensive collection of Ian Babb’s papers, was a USB Pen Drive that included what appears to be 74 English Pedigrees that he outlined prior to his death. They were the culmination of his lifetime of research and a key to understanding the remainder of his work. Each Pedigree is sorted into the…
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Book Announcement: Vol 8: Drunk, Insolent, Disobedient & Babb: The Babbs of Maryland (3)
As I prepared for this volume on the Maryland Babbs, I was struck by a document for Charles Babb (3-1-4) who was court martialed 3 times during his short military career. The first time for being Drunk, the next for being insolent with this commander and the 3rd time for being disobedient. Though the DNA…
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Drunk, Insolent, Disobedient & Babb
It isn’t the first time that these words were used to describe a member of the Babb Family. We have a long line of resisting authority figures and it turns out Charles Babb (3-1-4) of Anne Arundel, Maryland was no different. While proofing the tree for an upcoming book release on the Babbs of Anne…
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Book Announcement: Vol 7: The Puzzling History of the Babb Families of North Carolina (5) and Eastern Virginia (4) Now available in Print!
Imagine, a friend loans you their lake house for the weekend, while they are traveling out of the country. You show up ready to spend some great leisure time out on the lake. But shortly after you arrive, a massive storm sets in and lingers for the next several days. As you stand inside, watching…
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BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Babb’s Rock is now available in Print!
I am thrilled to announce that my first book is finally available in print. Babb’s Rock, is the first volume of a new series that will unfold to include Babb lineages from around the world. I’ve title the series Babb Unabridged, because I plan to leave nothing out. Please note that this is NOT simply…