Category: Unproven Lineages: US
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Meet the Mapmakers: Uncovering Hall & Babbs of Stockton, Missouri
If you’ve spent time paging through late 19th-century county atlases, you may have spotted the imprint: “Published by Hall & Babbs, Stockton, MO, 1886.” That and what to make of the earlier map of Cedar County, MO in 1879 by “Babbs & Stoddard”. The name rang a bell for me—but who exactly were Hall and…
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W. E. Babb & the MKT Railroad
This curious little pass was available for sale on eBay some time back. I held it hoping to ascertain exactly who W. E. Babb was. That day has never come, and I have almost nothing to go on. He is possibly the William E. Babb of Pottawattamie, IA who is the only viable hit in…
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The “Travis Theorem” Yields a Result!
Y-DNA has rendered an answer to the Travis Theorem! The results are clear in some respects and not in others. So, before I go into detail, let’s step into the wayback machine to March 2024 when I first started researching this theory. My words as we started this journey were: Travis, my copilot for this…