Articles Published by Certified Genealogists June through December 2023

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Published articles by Certified Genealogists June-December 2023 (including earlier 2023 from Magazine of Virginia Genealogy and Maryland Genealogical Society Journal).

Anderson, Pam Pracser. “Parents for Amanda M. (Winfield) (Doty) Marquart of Orange County and Tioga County, New York.” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 154 (July 2023): 181–200.

Birch, Nicki Peak. “Fairfax Parish Vestry Book, 1765–1785.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 61 (February 2023): 5–14.

Cross, Denise E. “Determining the Parents of Sarah (Osborn) Spencer Sherwood Long of Washington County, New York.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (December 2023): 289–298.

Desmarais, Catherine Becker Wiest. “Was Nancy a Northamer? DNA Helps Identify a Revolutionary War Militiaman’s Daughter.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (June 2023): 129–146.

Finley, Carmen J. “John Finley, Elder, at Tinkling Spring Was Not the Son of John and Thankful (Doak) Finley.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 61 (November 2023): 277–279.

Fonkert, J.H. ("Jay"). "A Chain Migration Story: Terschelling Dutch to Illinois and Iowa," Minnesota Genealogist 54 (Summer 2023): 6–13.

Fonkert, J.H. ("Jay"). "Tangled Families: Römbkes and Klauses of Defiance, Ohio, and Des Moines County, Iowa." Minnesota Genealogist 54 (Fall 2023): 20–25.

Fonkert, J.H. ("Jay"). "A Midwest Migration Saaga: Nils Morstad of North Dakota, Alberta, and Minnesota." Minnesota Genealogist 54 (Summer 2023): 25–9.

Galvin, Nora. "USS Great Northern Carried Interesting Passengers to New York in 1919." Connecticut Ancestry 66 (November 2023): 69–70.

Hait, Michael. “A Case of Two Pensioners: Isaac Hawkins, U.S. Colored Infantry Veteran(s)” Maryland Genealogical Society Journal 64 (2023): 29–37.

Hait, Michael G., Jr. “Etienne Bellumeau de la Vincendiere, Planter-Refugee from Saint-Domingue: French Origins and American Descendants.” The Genealogist 37 (Fall 2023): 166–191.

Harvey, Deborah R. “Scottish Millwright on the James: Andrew Duncan of Fluvanna County.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 61 (May 2023): 95–104.

Hill, Ronald A. “The Ancestry of Dorothy Derrent, the Ghose of Botathan of South Petherwin, County Cornwall, England.” The Genealogist 37 (Fall 2023): 231–244.

Hill, Ronald A. "The Cornish Ancestry of William Colwill of Jefferson Co., Wisconsin." Devon & Cornwall Notes and Queries 43 (Spring 2023): 86–90.

Hill, Ronald A. “The English Ancestry of John Lonsdale, Kansas City, Missouri, Contractor.” The American Genealogist 92 (January/April 2022, published June 2023): 187–198.

Hinchliff, Helen. “Which Harriet Davidson Married Which Jacob Shott in Baltimore in 1815?” Maryland Genealogical Society Journal 64 (2023): 7–28.

Holmes, Eva. “Stanislao Cesta and Fortunato Cesta: Merging Identities.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (September 2023): 185–198.

Irwin, Jenny Rizzo. "The Guarino Family: Planting Roots from Ribera, Sicily, in Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey." The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 98 (September 2023): 131–140.

Jackson, B. Darrell. “The Family of Henry and Remember Luce of Martha’s Vineyard.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177 (Summer 2023): 245–257.

Jones, Thomas W. “The Recordless Marriage of Virginia Jones from Caroline County, Virginia, and Henry Brooks of Covington County, Alabama.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (September 2023): 165–183.

Ladd, Carolyn. "The Conflating of Two Sisters: Edwidge Hebert (Sister Mary Anastasia) and Anazzie Hebert." Michigana 69 (Fall 2023): 29–37.

Little, Barbara Vines. “1768 Cumberland County Involvents.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 61 (February 2023): 79–80.

Little, Barbara Vines. “A 1757 Lunenburg County Tobacco List.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 61(May 2023): 85–7.

Little, Barbara Vines. “Papers of Edward Dixon, Merchant, of Caroline County.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 61 (May 2023): 131–142.

Little, Barbara Vines with Dennis Hudgins. “City of Williamsburg Legislative Petitions, 1776–1840.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 61 (November 2023): 257–268.

Michael, Susan. “Willis Gay: The Testator, The Groom, and Their Wives.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (September 2023): 221–234.

Mills, Elizabeth Shown. “Identifying a Teenage Mother in Rural Pre-1850 America: the FAN Suggests and the atDNA Confirms Shadrack Odom’s First Wife.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (December 2023): 245–274.

Nelson, Lynn. “Was Leonard Baumgardner (1755–1839) of York, Pennsylvania, the Father of Anna Maria “Mary” Wehrly Meyers (1791–1852)? Using Conflict Resolution to Establish Identity.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (December 2023): 275–288.

Posz, Darcie Hind. "The Murder of Nathan Fenn of Milford, Connecticut." Connecticut Nutmegger 56 (Fall 2023): 2–12.

Peterson, Allen R. “Parents for Apprentice Thomas Collins of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, England.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (June 2023):147–159.

Randall, Ruth. “Rutherford Burchard Hayes Rivers: An Identity Untangled.” The Genealogist 37 (Fall 2023): 151–165.

Saxbe, William B. Jr. “A Plumb Line: The Parentage and Progeny of Pleiades Plumb (1832–1908).” The Genealogist 37 (Fall 2023): 192–230.

Spohr, Aaron D. “A Family for Samuel Robbins of Sumner, Maine.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (September 2023): 199–219.

Solomon, Gay. “Documenting a State Trial and Sentencing without Extant Court Records.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 61 (November 2023): 303–317.

Soper, Clarise. "General Store — Johnston Family, Pitt Co., (March – June 1844)." The North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal 49 (April-May-June 2023): 159–170.

Stanbary, Karen. “A Charming Scoundrel and a Tragic Victim—Charles Mapes and Maggie McBurney of Rock Island County, Illinois: Biological Parents of Myrtle Eva (Porter) Dewein.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 111 (June 2023): 85–110.

Stott, Clifford L. “The English Ancestry of Brothers William Fellows of Ipswich, Mass., and Richard Fellows of Hartford, Conn., and Springfield, Northampton, and Hadley, Mass.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177 (Summer 2023): 234–244.

Stott, Clifford L. “The Lovett Family of Chesham, Buckinghamshire, Ancestors of Daniel Lovett and His Half-Sister Elizabeth (Lovett) Twitchell, Wife of Joseph Twitchell, of Massachusetts.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177 (Summer 2023): 258–261.

Stott, Clifford L. “Revised Lineage of Richard Hawes of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, and Dorchester, Massachusetts.” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 178 (Winter 2023): 58–66.

Sunderlin, Bridget M. “Finding Parents for Martha Cecelia Wright of Harford County, Maryland.” Maryland Genealogical Society Journal 64 (2023): 61–92.

Wentling, Mark A. "Joseph Brownell (1699–ca. 1773) of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, and Little Compton, Rhode Island: Corrections to the Identities of His Wives and Children." Mayflower Descendant 71 (Summer 2023): 132–163.

Wilcox, Shirley Langdon. "Debunking the Age on a Tombstone: Malinda (Nevill) Thompson, an Early Settler in Lake County, California." The California Nugget 15 (Fall 2023): 12–14, 19.

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