Rev. Dr. Albert B. Collver III is a Lutheran pastor and family historian tracing the descendants of Edward Colver through the Rev. Jabez Collver, his fifth great-grandfather—preserving the records, documents, and stories of the Collver family.
Family History
On 23 October 1844 a railway plate layer named John King was run over on the Hartlepool line. The family had forgotten him; a coroner's inquest, two death registrations that disagree, and one word in a burial register brought him back.
Family History
Four brothers married four sisters, all of the same name. The land office of Upper Canada paid the dowries.
Family History
An 1831 will, a 1940 typescript, and a reader's letter find the daughter the family register lost.
Family History
An orphan of the persecuted Rogerene sect chose his own guardian at sixteen, took orders under the Cambridge Platform, and spent nearly thirty years as the kind of salaried minister his family had heckled.
Family History
In early September a comment arrived on one of this blog's Facebook posts, from a descendant of a Louisiana blacksmith's line, asking a question this project hears in many forms: can my Culvers be traced to yours? The family had done its work — they had a
Family History
Run a finger down the records asking what they did for a living: bread, beer, wheels, shoes, land, flour, cheese, shirts, and the telephone — three centuries of the licensed trade a town cannot do without.
Family History
In the first days of November, 1814, on a hilltop above Waterford in Norfolk County, Upper Canada, two middle-aged millers stood under a great oak with a rope over its limb. The rope was already around the neck of one of them. Around them sat a column of mounted
Family History
On the twenty-eighth of August, 1813, in the second summer of the war, Captain Nesbitt Collver of Townsend township sat down and made his will. Listen to this post 0:0015:20 ▶ Listen to this post read aloud (MP3, 15 min) Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicMore apps He was thirty-
Family History
Vanita Johnson Engelbrecht died in the small hours between Saturday and Sunday, the twenty-ninth and thirtieth of August. She was my father's eighth cousin — the two of them the same number of generations down from a couple who lie in unmarked ground on a New Jersey mountainside
Family History
In 1636 a wheelwright signed a covenant at Dedham, sixty-eighth on the roll. In 1791 his great-great-grandson organized a covenanted church in the Pennsylvania wilderness. One hundred fifty-five years, one revolution, one sedition conviction — and the same instrument, signed twice.
Family History
In 1832 an old soldier swore he had seen his birth on the family register of his father's family — and could not say what had become of it. On the registers this family lost, refused, and should not have trusted.
Family History
There is a small lake in Mount Arlington, New Jersey, that the modern map calls Lake Rogerene. Listen to this post 0:0018:42 ▶ Listen to this post read aloud (MP3, 19 min) ▶ Listen to this episode Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicMore apps Almost nobody who drives past it could tell