Heather Olsen's Genealogy Page

My Family Tree

Master Index

Ancestors

of my great-grandfather

Raymond Morrison Diggs

Includes 19th century immigrants from Württemberg, Germany; the Myers and Morrison families of Philadelphia; pioneer settlers of Randolph Co., Indiana; and Quaker families from Nantucket, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, and North Carolina. 

Ahnentafel

Index

Ancestors

of my great-grandmother

Marion Elizabeth Strange

Includes 19th century immigrants from Nova Scotia and from Buckinghamshire, England; as well as families from colonial Connecticut and Massachusetts,  many of whom arrived in the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies during the great migration.

 

Ahnentafel

Index

Ancestors

of my great-grandfather 

Frank Corns

Includes the Markee family of Maryland and Ohio; the Corns family of Ohio; and a number of French Canadian families whose descendants migrated to Michigan. 

Ahnentafel Index

Ancestors

of my great grandparents

Jakob Martin Olsen and Augusta Jakobsen

Both arrived in Brooklyn, New York from Høvåg and Vestre Moland in Aust Agder, Norway in the 1880s. Their ancestors lived in those parishes, in Kristiansand, Norway, in a number of adjacent parishes, and in Copenhagen, Denmark. Please note: Norwegian patronymic names are not included in the master surname index. Please use your browser's search function.

Ahnentafel

I am also researching the families of several 19th century German immigrants to Toledo, Ohio. These include Julius Paul Behrendt, 1864-1935, from West Prussia; Elisabeth Behrens, 1828-1903, from Mecklenburg-Schwerin; Hulda Heiden 1872-1953, from Damsdorf, Pommerania; Friedrich Köhne, 1830-1895, from Mecklenburg-Schwerin; Paulina Krüger, 1863-1945, from West Prussia; Martin Johan Reekwald 1866-1949, from Klawsdorf, East Prussia; and Lorenz J. Schenck 1854-1924, from Hesse.

Shalstone, Buckinghamshire, England

My Strange family lived in Shalstone in northwest Buckinghamshire in the 18th century. I have created a webpage with information on Shalstone genealogy, including gravestones in the parish churchyard.
 

Lucas County, Ohio

Because of my interest in genealogy in that area, from 1997-2001 I served as the County Coordinator for Lucas County, Ohio for the USGenweb Project. The current  County Coordinator is Bonnie Walsh, who now maintains the Lucas County Genweb Page.

Mecklenburg, Germany

I serve as the list owner for Mecklenburg-l, a listserv list devoted to genealogy in Mecklenburg, Germany. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, visit the subscription page.

Prince George's County, Maryland

I am a Past President and the Program Chair of the Prince George's Co., Maryland Geneological Society.
 

Medieval Genealogy

The ancestors of Marion Elizabeth Strange (see above) include Jane Deighton (bap. 5 Apr 1609), who migrated from Gloucester, England to Boston, Mass. Her maternal grandmother was Elizabeth Lygon, through whom I descend from much of the nobility of medieval England, and most of the royal families of medieval Europe. I have more information on her ancestry than is practical to include here, but if you contact me by email, I will be happy to share my research.

National Institute on Genealogical Research

I serve as the webmaster for the National Institute on Genealogical Research (NIGR), one of the leading genealogical education programs in the U.S. I also serve as webmaster for the National Institute on Genealogical Research Alumni Association (NIGRAA).

Other Researchers' Pages:

I have met many distant cousins online who are researching the same families as I am. Here are some of their pages:

Linda Starr has a page on the Clark and Moorman Families

Elizabeth Harris's page also has information on the Clark Family

Cheska Wheatly has a page on the Clayton Family and many other Quaker families

Ken McEvoy has a page on the Knowlton Family There is also a Knowlton family discussion list. To subscribe, send a message to majordomo@benetech.com containing the text subscribe knowlton

Virginia Peterson has a page on the Tubbs Family.

Mike Strange has a page with a great deal of information about the Strange Surname.
 

Searchable Databases of Records:

Here are some online databases that I have found useful in my research:

The Ohio Historical Society has an index of Ohio deaths 1913-37.

The Indiana State library has an Index of Indiana marriages to 1850. (Caution: I have discovered that the dates given for some Quaker marriages are in fact the date the couple was reported married to the monthly meeting).

The Bureau of Land Management has a searchable index of land patent records from the General Land Office.

The British Public Record Office has a searchable database of Prerogative Court of Canterbury wills. You can search the database for free, but downloading a will costs £3.50.

If you are interested in any of the families I am researching, please contact me. In many cases I have a good deal more information than what is listed here, and I am happy to share that, as well as my sources, upon request.