Category: Family History

Science Fiction and Paranormal Fantasy with a Noir Twist

Searching for John Shufelt, Part 2

Last time, I started the story of how I dug into my wife’s roots and ended up figuring out what happened to her great-grandmother but then found myself with another mystery on my hands: her great-great-grandfather, John Shufelt, about whom I could find almost no information. The thing about Mr. Shufelt that bothered me was…
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July 19, 2014 1

Searching for John Shufelt, Part 1

I’m pretty sure I got the genealogy bug sometime during 6th grade when one of my friends informed me that his mom had been researching their family history in the library and discovered that they were related to Jesse James. It could easily have been nothing more than a 12-year-old’s boast, completely fabricated, but that…
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July 4, 2014 1