Surname Origins
The Captain of the Dove
A dove-named man, a ship called Dove, and the historian who caught them both before the tide went out.
podcast
Edward Colver
The Ship That Never Was
Edward Colver's crossing, the ships he was not on, and what an honest family history does with an empty sea Listen to this post 0:0024:34 Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicMore apps Every American family story wants to begin with a ship. It is the oldest scene in
Jabez Collver
The Judge, the Preacher, and the Log Gaol
Nathaniel Pettit, Jabez Collver, and the price of a signature For Kathy Hall UE Listen to this post 0:0025:12 Subscribe:Apple PodcastsSpotifyAmazon MusicMore apps There is a village in New Jersey that was named for its jail. Not for a founder, not for a church, not for some
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The Archive Now Speaks
The Collver Family History Project is now a podcast Nearly everything on this site was written to be heard. Jabez Collver’s petitions were read aloud to a council; his sedition case turned on words spoken in a neighbor’s hearing; his trade was the sermon, which dies on paper
genealogy
The Family Pamphlet: The Collver-Culver Genealogy, 1630 to 1916
A reader asked where to find the rarest book in the family. Here it is — all eleven pages — together with the 1976 obituary pasted inside that tells you exactly whose shelf it came from.