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Sanora Babb to be honored at the Oklahoma Book Awards (30 Apr 2022) / Mini-Babb Reunion
You are cordially invited to participate in the 2022 Oklahoma Book Awards and mini-Babb Reunion. This is a great opportunity for those in the Oklahoma vicinity to come and pay respect to one of the most famous/infamous Babbs of the 20th Century. Not only is Sanora Babb to be honored, but we will also have […]
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RIP Dacie Quillen Babb
It is with great sadness that I report that Dacie Quillen Babb passed away at 2:20am yesterday April 2nd, 2022. She was 90 years and 11 days old. We had just celebrated her 90th Birthday 2 weeks ago and she knew her health was failing. She still had lots of spunk though and boundless energy […]
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The Untold Story of Dacie Quillen Babb
I can’t think of any happier occasion than this. My girl Dacie is turning 90 this morning! She and I have been confidants these last 20 years as we navigated the trials and tribulations of a bunch of sticks of wood that have a spectacular history dating back to the times of the American Revolution. […]
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Little Miss Nobody has a Name!
Sharon Lee Gallegos was born about 1957 and was kidnapped in 1960. She would have been 65 this year. Five Years Later her mother kept hope alive, but her relief never came in an all too often scenario. We now know that Sharon was driven more than 500 miles from Alamagordo, NM to a desert […]
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‘Little Miss Nobody’ finally gets a name on Tuesday
DNA is once again coming to the rescue in solving a cold case that involved the murder of a little girl 3-6 years old in the desert of Yavapai County, Arizona. For 62 years this case has remained unsolved. The identity of the girl has never been known and no family came forward to file […]
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The “final” accounting of our Loss in Devon
I’ve finally finished entering the stubs of the estate documents that miraculously remain after the Nazi Bombing which is known as the “Exeter Blitz” of 1942. This was perhaps the most discouraging task I’ve tried to accomplish in my 20+ years of Genealogy. To have a fragment of information of the lost records, but not […]
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Old St Nick Makes some Lemonade
While matching the list of now extinct Wills from Devon, I ran across a cluster of 3 records that helped prove a connection that was previously unknown in our tree. They looked like this: Year of Record Name Location Detail 1712 Thomas Babb St Nicholas Administration 1712 Geoffrey Babb St Nicholas Will 1735 Barbara Babb […]
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The Ancestry of Andrew Jackson Babb Revealed
A recent query on the Babb Family Association Facebook Group led me to realize that I had never documented the story about how we discovered his heritage. It was first solved about 1-2 years ago as I was working with an Oregon Babb that was trying to solve the riddle of Andrew’s parents. The wild […]
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What we lost in Doddiscombsleigh
One of our greatest Babbs of Devon mysteries is who descends from the Babbs of Doddiscombsleigh. The known road leads us through the remote village that is almost impossible to find without a Satellite and a phone signal. It lies several km from Exeter. If not for some records that failed to make it to […]
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#WhyDevonResearchIsSoHard – Epilogue
Today I received an email from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. It contained scans of the pages from the book I mentioned in my last post titled “All Hope is not Lost! #WhyDevonResearchIsSoHard – Babb Unabridged.” I gleefully opened the PDF and was disappointed to find typed pages that exactly mirrored the […]