Posts in April 26, 2025

For years, I’ve worked on documenting those aunts and uncles who had no children of their own. These ancestral siblings are sometimes ignored in favor of the ones who married, had children, and have descendants living today. That’s usually because at least one descendant is actively researching them. But those who never grew to adulthood or who didn’t reproduce should be remembered just as much as the ones who did. I’ve decided to expand that project a little bit to include more work on those who had children, but who have no living descendants. I have one uncle who died in Illinois in 1906 and was the father of seven children. Five of those children died in a ten-year time span in the 1800s. The two children who […]