Index to Russell blogs

As we reach the end of a decade, I have now written 500 entries in my blog since beginning in February 2015. I’ve written on a variety of subjects, but there are a few deserve special recognition – stories about the Pierpont family, stories about my Russell ancestors, and stories about the history of my hometown, Wolcott, CT. I’ve written so many about these three topics that I thought it might be helpful to put together an index of all the stories in these areas.

This is the index for all those stories about the Russell family, organized into various categories to make it easier to read them (instead of doing a search in my blog and reading them in chronological order).

Family Origins

·       Origins of the Russell Family name

·       Russell Ancestral Lines

·       Royal and famous relations

·       Tracing the Russell family

·       Scandinavian Roots

·       My Norman ancestors

·       My Pedigree

 

Early Generations

·       John Russell - Immigrant Soldier

·       John Russell - Revolutionary War service

·       Loyalists in my family tree

·       Finding Caleb Russell's Family

·       Silas Russell descendants

·       Phoebe Isaacs

·       Caleb Barton

·       Literacy in my Russell ancestors

·       Anna Pauline Merchant

·       A major flaw in my family tree - part 1

·       A major flaw in my family tree - part 2

·       Morgan Lewis Cook

·       Benjamin Judd Rogers

·       Stephen Simmons - Civil War Casualty

·       Being a Mayflower Blue Blood

 

Great-grandparents and Grandparents

·       Louis Russell

·       Erskine Russell

·       Walter Linus Russell

·       Edith Russell

·       Tracing Female Ancestors

·       Sisters and step-sisters

·       Eva's journals

·       Finding Juanita

·       Vera Estelle Levy

·       The Gap in the Levy Story

·       Nana Rogers and Nana Russell

·       Charles Rogers

·       Vera Rogers passing - She'll keep!

·       My Great Aunts - part 1

·       My Great Aunts - part 2

·       How my grandparents and parents met

·       Cause of death of my grandparents

 

My Parents

·       The Nomadic Life of Vernon Russell

·       Ancestor occupations

·       My father's Navy service - part 1 - Overview

·       My father's Navy service - part 2 - The Ship

·       My father's Navy service - part 3 - Log of Dates

·       My father's Navy service - part 4 - Ship's Log

·       War Story - Vernon Russell

·       Memories of a grandfather - by Chris Russell

·       Marrying a cousin - my parents

·       The bridal shower

 

Other Russell connections

·       Second Cousins

·       Distant connections between my wife's ancestors, and my Pierpont/Russell ancestors

·       New Milford connections

·       Contacting cousins

·       Finding a birth mother

·       Finding a birth mother - part 2

·       Russells, Russells, everywhere

·       The shot heard round the world

·       Presidential Connections

·       Finding living relatives

·       Pierpont-Russell connections

·       A cousin web

·       The Oliver Wolcott connection

·       Famous and not-so-famous Russells

·       Finding Cousin Jane

·       William Merchant Russell

·       The James Walter Russell family

·       The James Walter Russell family - part 2

 

Miscellaneous

·       Slave Owners in my family tree

·       Mayflower ancestors in a Jewish family (Levy)

·       Were my Levy Ancestors Jewish?

·       Tracing my Jewish heritage

·       Jewish cousins

·       Jewish cousins - part 2

·       Indians, Moravians and Ancestors

·       Finding and losing relatives

·       The Russell wives

·       Serving their country

·       Tribute to a Russell cousin

·       Robert Earl Russell - the last of his generation

·       DNA testing find Charlotte Russell

·       Carrying on the Russell name

·       Why I do what I do

·       Marrying my cousin

 

Index to Pierpont Blogs

As we reach the end of a decade, I have now written 500 entries in my blog since beginning in February 2015. I’ve written on a variety of subjects, but there are a few deserve special recognition – stories about the Pierpont family, stories about my Russell ancestors, and stories about the history of my hometown, Wolcott, CT. I’ve written so many about these three topics that I thought it might be helpful to put together an index of all the stories in these areas.

This is the index for all those stories about the Pierpont family, organized into various categories to make it easier to read them (instead of doing a search in my blog and reading them in chronological order).

Origins of the Pierpont Family

·       My Norman ancestors

·       My Pedigree

·       William the Conqueror

·       William the Conqueror - part 2

·       William the Conqueror and the Pierrepont family

·       An unexpected connection

·       Lords and Sirs in the family tree

·       Name change when coming to the Americas

·       Changing names

·       First Church of Roxbury, MA

·       The Pierponts of Roxbury, Massachusetts

·       Pioneers of Massachusetts

·       Lost Dukedom of the New England Pierponts

 

Rev. James Pierpont of New Haven and his immediate family

·       James Pierpont

·       Harvard and Yale

·       James Pierpont and Yale

·       Yale - part 2

·       Princeton University

·       James Pierpont siblings and cousins

·       Carrying on the family name and business

·       James Pierpont descendants

·       Summary of connections to other Connecticut founding families

·       A triple marriage - three grandsons of Rev. James Pierpont

·       Religious Leader ancestors

 

My Pierpont Grandparents

·       A tangled Wolcott web

·       Sam and Hattie Nichols - my grandfather's "adoptive" parents

·       How my grandparents and great-grandparents met

·       My Pierpont grandparents

·       Grandparent Cousins

·       Trail blazer with a bucket of paint

·       Waterbury Hall of Fame

·       Cause of death of grandparents

 

The Blackman Family

·       The Blackman and Talmadge family

·       Prospect Connections

·       The Reno Nevada connection

·       Edna Blackman

·       My Great Aunts - part 1

·       My Great Aunts - part 2

 

My Mother’s Family

·       My mother's Pierpont cousins

·       Second Cousins

·       Ancestor occupations

·       Spouses of my mother's siblings

·       Stories from my mother - part 1 - My Dad

·       Stories from my mother - part 2 - After 8th grade

·       Stories from my mother - part 3 - After High School

·       Stories from my mother - part 4 - Camping

·       Stories from my mother - part 5 - Memories of Camping

·       Stories from my mother - part 6 - Memories of Dawn

·       Stories from my mother - part 7 - Open House

 

Other Pierponts

·       Famous/Infamous Ancestors

·       Helen Pierpont - Traveling to China

·       The William Russell chest

·       The men in Margaret Miller's life

·       Charles Somers Miller

·       Hezekiah Pierrepont and Brooklyn

·       Hezekiah Pierrepont - Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington

·       The John Pierpont Study Table

·       Albert Pierrepont - Hangman

·       J. Pierpont Morgan

·       James Lord Pierpont - The Original Jingle Bells

·       James Lord Pierpont - Is Jingle Bells racist?

·       Lawyers and Politicians in the family tree

·       400 Years of John/James Pierpont

·       Ernest Hemingway

·       Daniel Pierpont Bible

 

Miscellaneous

·       Slave Owners in the Pierpont Family Tree

·       Slave Owners in my family tree

·       Battle of New Haven

·       Distant connections between my wife's ancestors, and my Pierpont/Russell ancestors

·       Leaving a legacy

·       The Pierpont Wives

·       My extended Pierpont family relatives in Wolcott

·       Ron James Pierpont - filling a hole in your life

·       Connecting the New England and VA/MD Pierpont families

·       Presidential Connections

·       Inter-family marriages

·       Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

·       Why I do what I do

·       The Alcox/Alcott - Pierpont Connection