The Mystery of Charles P. Mariner
For all that this website is partly named for my grandmother’s paternal family, the Mariners, there’s precious little actually known about them to date. Her father, John Henry Mariner, was […]
The Bizzell-Jernigans
“In 2013, geneticists Peter Ralph and Graham Coop showed that all Europeans are descended from exactly the same people. Basically, everyone alive in the ninth century who left descendants is the ancestor of every living European today, including Charlemagne, Drogo, Pippin and Hugh. Quel dommage.”
The Dittos of Maryland
Depending on who you ask, the Dittos of Alabama, late of Baltimore County, Maryland, were originally from France (“Ditteau”) or Scotland. No one knows for sure, but what is known […]
To Begin at the Beginning
These are the building blocks of my maternal family, as it were. Obviously, I have a paternal family as well, but they seem to have, as a group, all entered […]