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Will the Real Ernest Babb Please Step Forward?
I need to post a retraction on an incorrect association I made yesterday about one Ernest Babb. The offending post has been corrected. The Photo is for a different Ernest Babb from the same tree. But the Ernest Babb pictured was born in the UK before moving to Australia. He did not come to America […]
The Rosetta Stone of Cornwall, England
As I continue to pursue connecting as many Cornwall Babbs as possible, I came across a record from the 1851 Census that demonstrates a connection between Cornwall Pedigree 02 & Cornwall Pedigree C. It isn’t an exact connection but shows that the families are related so that we know they belong together, even though the […]
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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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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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