Category: Unproven Lineages: Unknown Lineage
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Let The Arms Race Begin!
Coats of Arms that is! With the encouragement of one of our members who helped underwrite the digitization of the Diaries of Thomas Babb (1841-1915) of Champaign, IL, I reached out to the College of Arms in London to inquire about the origin of the Babb Crest. As an association we have never known the […]
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Master Sargent: Morris Babb & General Douglas MacArthur
Research is difficult in this time period due to the the worst Genealogical Record fire in US History at the St. Louis Veterans Personnel records center. It destroyed something like 80% of all personnel records from WWI & WWII particularly for the Army and Air Force service members. So, there is little info available to […]
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Voice of America: Carla Babb
One of our members spotted a piece by Carla Babb who serves as an Anchor for the Voice of America (VOA). It’s always nice to see a Babb doing well in this world, so I wanted to give a shout out to her and share her story with you: What follows is lifted directly from […]
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Drinking games and Raymond Babb
One late night during my sequester I was bored and playing my favorite drinking game, shopping on eBay. I came across an item that I immediately recognized and it took me way back to my college days. The item related to a drinking game we played by the name of Turtles. This item seemed to […]
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Bob Babb, Weatherman in Lansing, MI
Thi s is another eBay find that I’m unable to match to someone in our tree. It is relatively recent and the tree likely doesn’t extend to 1977 to encompass him. I’m hoping he is someone’s “Uncle Bob” and they can help shed some light on our advertisement. Any detectives out there who can help […]
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Conover, Babb & Co.
I came across this receipt from a Conover, Babb & Co. in Philadelphia, PA from the day after Christmas in 1884. The company sells footwear. I’m unable to place the company ownership as we have only the last names of the owners. So, I’m throwing it out to the masses to see if someone can […]
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Texoma firefighters pay tribute to 9/11 first responders
One of our own took part in a 9/11 tribute activity here in Texas. Kasey Babb, who is a firefighter in Sherman, Texas (home of my Alma Matter, Austin College) climbed 110 flights of stairs in memory of the valiant firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11/2001. The story was picked up by a local […]
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Babbs in Vietnam
I visited Washington, DC recently and while I was there visited the Vietnam Memorial. I realized that with all the names, there might be a Babb somewhere on the wall and quickly found a website that lists every name. In a flash I found two Babbs Richard C. Babb & Kenneth A. Babb. Looking back […]
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3921 “new” Babbs!
Thanks to the work of a very determined member we have added 3921 new Babb descendants to the English Babb lines. Almost have of those are in the Somerset lineage and together they connect the existing tree to modern day. The disconnect was a result of the English system of not releasing Census records for […]
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An African Babb?
Ebay provided this rare “Discharge” document of an L. Babb who served for 7 months in Rhodesia (current day Zimbabwe, Africa) during what is known as the Second Matabele War in 1896. The area served as a British Colony at the time and L. Babb could either be British or African, but his exact identity […]