Pardon my dust…
Mar 2nd, 2009 | By Leonard Legends & Legacies | Category: NewsIf you stopped by here on Thursday or Friday of last week, you might’ve seen a seizure-inducing splash screen that read “Hacked by Star08.” So, guess what I was doing all weekend?
Iowa roadbuilders circa 1905
So instead of publishing some witty and highly insightful post, I re-built my back end. Shuddup.
I upgraded the database software and noticed they’ve stolen my “Most Wanted” idea and built it right into the software. So. if you wanna sneak on over to this page, you’ll see there’s now space for Elusive People and Mystery Photographs… so send me your nominations. (It’s a different design over there, I’ll be working on that, too. Click the Home button to get back to this page.)
I think there’s some other new stuff over there, but I haven’t had time to investigate. And speaking of new stuff, I have every intention of adding a Resources page to include as many online data sources as I can drum up. Stuff like the Beers and Crumrine histories, Greene County History, etc. etc. So send me any links you think I should include. (Leave them in the Comments, if you would.)
In the meantime, keep and eye out for alien bots and… pardon my dust.
(Postscript… The story behind the photograph is that it comes from my family’s stash in southwest Iowa. It’s a road crew. Taken in approximately 1905, it shows some of my kin and their neighbors working off the local “road tax.” That’s what they did in those days… supply the muscle and horsepower to clear & grade the county roads… in lieu of paying cash for their taxes.)
Rick – I am hung up on documenting a connection to the Robert Leonard that married Honor Pritchard ca 1760. I hope you can give me some advice. What I would like to do is find a documented descendant of Robert and Honor and offer this person a DNA test. If their DNA matches mine, the connection is proven. Any idea how to request the documented connection from the largest number of Leonard’s?
You might try posting on a Leonard surname mailing list: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/surname/l/leonard.html#LEONARD but you’ll need patience. There are no magic bullets.
Hello, why do you want to find out about Robert Leonard? He would have been my great-great-great-great-great grandfather. Hal Beyer,Delmar NY 12054
Robert was my great great great great grandfather, but I don’t have any information about his father,s o I can’t go any further back. I am looking for documentation of Robert’s father and his father’s cirth date and location.
Hi Hal
Did your family come through Tennessee? Robert Leonard(circa 1730-1780) was my ggggg grand father.
Bob Leonard
Hello Cousins:
I, too, am a descendant of Robert Leonard born c. 1730 (?) and married to Honor Pritchard . All the records I have for him state he was born in Pontypool, Wales. However, since I have run into dead ends in my efforts to find his parentage, I am assuming he did NOT emigrate from Wales, but Ireland. I would very much like to know if anyone else has reached the same conclusion and might have any records confirming this. I am Robert’s descendant thru his and Honor’s son, Thomas, and Thomas’ son with Hannah James, Griffith (sometimes recorded as Griffin?) and then their son, Thomas Bunyan (TB) Leonard. My family did settle in TN, namely Belfast in Marshall County. Many of my relatives are buried at Round Hill Cemetery. I have a wealth of research and histories gathered by my father and am hoping to both fine tune the information and extend it back even farther to the ascendants of Robert Leonard. Thanks in advance! -Dawn