Andrews Genealogy

This is my Andrews Genealogy page. These are links to my posts about my Andrews ancestors and family.

Andrews:

• The Memoirs of John Andrews, Part 1: School Days, 1835 to 1850
• The Memoirs of John Andrews, Part 2: Relatives and Travels
• The Memoirs of John Andrews, Part 2a: That Dageurreotype
• The Memoirs of John Andrews, Part 3: Farm Inventions, Politics, and Business
• The Memoirs of John Andrews, Part 4: Father’s Death, Marriage to Mirinda, and New Business Ventures
• The Memoirs of John Andrews, Part 5: Fruit Farming and Permanent Roots in Rockford
• The Hatter of Broadway, Anson Taylor, husband of a cousin whom John Andrews met during his 1853 travels
• Report on a Very Distant Cousin, about Clark Allyn Butler, a cousin of John Andrews who was reared with John
• Frederick B. Andrews: In the Great War
• Fanny Ginders: The Unattached Aunt—the sister of an Andrews spouse
• A Little Trip into the Past—Ernest John Andrews’s journey to the Piper-Norton-Andrews homesteads
• The 1662 Document!—the Andrews-Barnes marriage contract
• My Earliest Immigrant Ancestors—including the ancestors of Ernest John Andrews who came to Massachusetts in 1630
• My great-uncle Roger W. Andrews and his first wife, Flavia, in Channel Crossings
• Roger and Flavia’s beautiful house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• How My Family Came West—includes the story of how the Andrews family ended up in Oregon

Barnes:

• Civil War Letters to Julia (Palmer) Barnes
• Eliza and Olivia Barnes: The Bombshell in Jane’s Last Letter—the liaison between Eliza Barnes and her brother-in-law Henry Bedell
• The 1662 Document!—the Andrews-Barnes marriage contract
• How Did the Barnes and Bedell Families Cross Again?—another, later instance of a conjunction between the two families
• Mr Newel’s House, or Turn Off Your Spell Check—It’s 1745!—a vignette out of the Town Records of New Cambridge, Connecticut
• How My Family Came West—includes the story of how the Barnes family migrated westward

Piper:

• Mirinda Piper Andrews Memoirs, part 1
• Mirinda Piper Andrews Memoirs, part 2
• Mirinda Piper Andrews Memoirs, part 3
• Mirinda Piper Andrews Memoirs, part 4
• Mirinda Piper Andrews Memoirs, part 5
• Mirinda Piper Andrews Memoirs, part 6
• Missing Letters of Mirinda Piper, part 1
• Missing Letters of Mirinda Piper, part 2
• Missing Letters of Mirinda Piper, part 3
• Missing Letters of Mirinda Piper, part 4
• Edward Herndon Piper Family, part 1—discovering the family of an uncle of Mirinda Piper
• Edward Herndon Piper Family, part 2
• Edward Herndon Piper Family, part 3

Palmer:

• The Curious Last Letter of Zephaniah Platt Palmer
• Letters of Caroline Jane Palmer Alderman to Julia Esalina Palmer
• The Bombshell in Jane’s Last Letter
• “The Fiends of the Forest”—Betsey DeKalb’s Spooky Story

Civil War Letters to Julia (Palmer) Barnes

Norton:

• A Genealogical Search: How Assumptions May Lead Us Astray

There are more, but those are the main lines. I hope to have many more posts here!