Mystery of the Month

Mystery Monday      

Its not Monday yet but...  
The following photos were sent to me in hopes of finding answers.
The question???    

Are these photos of my great great aunt Anne Cora Nichols and her son-in-law Thomas Sherman?
If you know the answer please spill...
:)  

#FollowerFriday Barbara Schmidt

This week's follower is Barbara Schmidt, blogger and genealogist.
Thanks for the Follow Barb :)

http://schmidtbarbara.wordpress.com/ 
https://plus.google.com/118124499864484568982/posts

#ThrowbackThursday Cowboy Baby

Here is an old photo of me with a cowboy hat. And its so old that that is all I can tell you about it.

66. Ezekiel S. Jones #WednesdaysWall #ancestorlist

My Wall for the day is a tall one.
I am looking for the ancestors of Ezekiel S. Jones. Ezekiel is the father of Martha Ann Jones and the husband of Elizabeth Prindle. He is also the Grandfather of Ezekiel Hawkins Nichols.  I have seen it spelled Ezekial too.
Been looking for a long time and found nothing yet.

Links:
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/62911651/person/32097736734
http://genforum.genealogy.com/prindle/messages/389.html
http://records.ancestry.com/Ezekiel_Jones_records.ashx?pid=39613120
http://www.geni.com/people/Ezekiel-Jones/6000000020110513549

Six Genealogical Degrees of Kevin Bacon

The Genealogy Game

You have probably heard about the game, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Well, I altered it a little bit and made it a genealogical connect the dots to show his relationships to six of the stars of his movies. Just for fun...

Jeff Bridges

Jeff Bridges is Kevin Bacon's fifth great aunt's ex-husband's nephew's wife's 7th great nephew.

Kevin Bacon
→ Ruth Hilda Holmes
his mother → Dorothy Frances Smith
her mother → George Campbell Smith
her father → Francis Shubael Smith
his father → Moses Rogers Smith
his father → Shubael Smith
his father → Shubael Smith
his father → Mercy Smith
his daughter → Peter Newcomb
her ex-husband → Simon Newcomb
his brother → Andrew Newcomb
his son → Mercy Newcomb
his wife → Grace Eames
her sister → Anthony Eames
her son → Hannah Lenthal Ames
his daughter → Hannah Griswold
her daughter → Emerson Elisha Brown
her son → Prairie Frank Brown
his son → Harriet Evelyn Brown
his daughter → Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr.
her son → Jeff Bridges
his son

Jennifer Lawrence

Jennifer Shrader Lawrence is Kevin Bacon's 13th cousin once removed.

Kevin Bacon
→ Edmund Norwood Bacon
his father → Helen Atkinson Comly
his mother → Robert Comly
her father → Charles Comly
his father → Rebecca Comly
his mother → Stacy Budd
her father → Thomas Budd
his father → Thomas Budd, Sr.
his father → Ann Clapgut
his mother → John Claypole, Master of Horse
her father → John Claypoole, Sir
his father → Lady Dorothy Claypoole (Wingfield)
his mother → Elizabeth Wingfield
her mother → William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
her brother → Anne Cecil, Countess of Oxford
his daughter → Elizabeth (de Vere) Stanley, Countess of Derby
her daughter → James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
her son → William M Stanley
his son → William Stanley (1)
his son → Richard Stanley
his son → Elizabeth Standley
his daughter → Henry Leighman Lawrence
her son → William Thomas Lawrence
his son → James Ogden Lawrence
his son → Francis "Frank" Lawrence
his son → David Vernon Lawrence
his son → G. Lawrence
his son → Jennifer Shrader Lawrence
his daughter

Can you guess which movies they have in common?

See if you can remember what movies his relatives did with him.

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron is Kevin Bacon's 22nd cousin once removed.

Kevin Bacon
→ Edmund Norwood Bacon
his father → Ellis Williams Bacon
his father → Thomas Pryor BACON
his father → Edmund Pryor BACON
his father → David BACON
his father → Joseph BACON
his father → David Bacon
his father → John Bacon
his father → John Bacon
his father → Martha Bacon
his mother → Ann Foxwell
her mother → Robert Shelly, I
her father → John Shelley
his father → Mary Shelley
his mother → Sir William Fitzwilliam
her father → Thomas Fitzwilliam
his father → Margaret Fitzwilliam
his mother → Thomas Dymoke, King's Champion
her father → Sir John Dymoke, King's Champion
his father → Sir John de Dymoke, Usher of the Exchequer
his father → Dionisia Dymoke
his mother → Sir Hugh du Plessis, Knight
her father → Jean du Plessis, de iure uxoris 7th Earl of Warwick
his father → Pierre I du Plessis, Seigneur du Plessis, des Breux et de La Vervolière
his brother → Guillaume I du Plessis, Seigneur du Plessis, des Breux et de La Vervolière
his son → Pierre II du Plessis, Seigneur du Plessis, des Breux et de La Vervolière
his son → Guillame III du Plessis, Seigneur du Plessis, des Breux et de La Vervolière
his son → Pierre III, Seigneur du Plessis
his son → Jean du Plessis
his son → Mandé, Seigneur du Plessis
his son → Sauvage, Seigneur du Plessis
his son → François I du Plessis, Seigneur des Breux, de La Milaudière, de La Carrelière
his son → François II du Plessis, Seigneur des Breux, de La Carrelière et de Thou
his son → Jean du Plessis
his son → Charl Prieur du Plessis
his son → Jean Prieur du Plessis, SV/PROG
his son → Jean Louis du Plessis, b2
his son → Anna du Plessis, b2c1
his daughter → Charl Theron, b4c6
her son → Magdalena Petronella Theron
his daughter → Susanna de Wet
her daughter → Willem Wouter Theron, SV/PROG
her son → Charles Jacobus Theron, b13
his son → Daniel Theron, b13c1
his son → Charles Jacobus Theron
his son → Charlize Theron
his daughter

Robert Wagner

Robert John Wagner is Kevin Bacon's wife's first cousin thrice removed's husband's nephew's wife's first cousin once removed's ex-husband's ex-wife's son's ex-wife's 4th husband.

Kevin Bacon
→ Kyra Sedgwick
his wife → H. Sedgwick
her father → Helen Sedgwick
his mother → Rev. Endicott Peabody
her father → Marion Cabot Peabody
his mother → George Cabot Lee
her brother → Alice Hathaway Roosevelt
his daughter → Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, 26th President of the USA
her husband → Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
his sister → Theodore Douglas Robinson
her son → Helen Rebecca Robinson
his wife → Helen Schermerhorn Astor
her mother → Emily Van Alen
her sister → James Laurens Van Alen, III
her son → Louise Astor van Alen
his daughter → Alexis Mdivani
her ex-husband → Barbara Hutton
his ex-wife → Lance Reventlow
her son → Jill Arlyn Oppenheim
his ex-wife → Robert John Wagner
her husband

Dakota Fanning

Dakota Fanning is Kevin Bacon's 17th cousin.

Kevin Bacon
→ Edmund Norwood Bacon
his father → Helen Atkinson Comly
his mother → Lydia Towsend Atkinson
her mother → George Tatum Atkinson
her father → John Atkinson
his father → Samuel Atkinson
his father → Hannah Atkinson
his mother → Abigail Shinn
her mother → Hannah Shattuck
her mother → William Shattock of Boston
her father → Samuel (or William or John) Shattuck
his father → Demaris Hopkins
his mother → Mary Hopkins
her mother → Anne Poley (Wentworth)
her mother → Thomas Wentworth,1st Baron Wentworth of Nettlestead
her father → Anne Wentworth
his mother → Sir James Tyrrell, Kt.
her father → Dorothy Boteler
his sister → Margaret Harmon
her daughter → Elizabeth Leonard
her daughter → Sir Samuel Lennard, Kt., MP
her son → Mary Lennard
his daughter → Margery Bellingham
her daughter → William Chambers
her son → William Chambers
his son → John Chambers
his son → Keziah Chambers
his daughter → Edward Pankey
her son → Nancy Jane Covington
his daughter → John Alva Covington
her son → Nellie Grace Arrington
his daughter → Richard Adler Arrington, Jr.
her son → R. Arrington
his son → H. Fanning
his daughter → Dakota Fanning
her daughter

Bridget Fonda

Bridget Jane Fonda is Kevin Bacon's 11th cousin once removed.

Kevin Bacon
→ Ruth Hilda Holmes
his mother → Dorothy Frances Smith
her mother → George Campbell Smith
her father → Francis Shubael Smith
his father → Moses Rogers Smith
his father → Shubael Smith
his father → Shubael Smith
his father → Elizabeth (Pierce) Smith
his mother → Daniel Pierce
her father → Anthony Pierce
his father → John Pearce
his father → Richard Pearce, of Providence
his brother → Capt. Michael Pierce
his son → Mary Holbrook
his daughter → Elizabeth Holbrook
her daughter → Berthia Nichols
her daughter → Levi Nichols
her son → Nancy Nichols
his daughter → George Nichols Seymour
her son → George De Villers Seymour
his son → Eugene Ford Seymour
his son → Frances Ford Fonda
his daughter → Peter Seymour Fonda
her son → Bridget Jane Fonda
his daughter

Sources

• Elle Fanning
  Genealogy on Geni, a resource with over 100 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
• Jennifer Lawrence
  Genealogy for Jennifer Shrader Lawrence on Geni with over 100 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Page updated February 25, 2013.
• Robert Wagner
  Genealogy for Robert John Wagner on Geni with over 100 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Page updated March 5, 2013.
• Jeff Bridges
  Genealogy for Jeffrey Leon Bridges on Geni with over 100 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Page updated June 13, 2011.
• Charlize Theron
  Genealogy for Charlize Theron on Geni with over 100 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Page updated March 22, 2011.
• Bridget Fonda
  Genealogy for Bridget Jane Fonda on Geni with over 100 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Page updated December 19, 2012.
• Kevin Bacon
  Genealogy for Kevin Norwood Bacon on Geni with over 100 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. Page updated November 7, 2012.

Mellawalka Nichols Wilson #TombstoneTuesday

#TombstoneTuesday
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=99592130

Who were the Jacobites?

The word Jacobite comes from the latin Jacobus (Jacob's), or James' from the Royal House of Stuart. The followers of the James' (James V through to VII) were therefore known as Jacobites. Jacobitism is, however, more than merely a belief that a different person has best right to the throne. It is also a radically different understanding of the place which the monarch and the monarchy have within society. Jacobites reject the idea that the king has his authority delegated to him by Parliament. Many hold that the king's authority comes directly from Almighty God.

Jacobites were adherents of the exiled branch of the Stuart Dynasty who sought to restore James II and his descendants to the English and Scottish thrones after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Theoretical justification for the Stuart claim was found in the writings of the Nonjurors, who maintained the principles of hereditary succession and the divine right of kings. But the Stuarts' continued adherence to Roman Catholicism, the rash and incompetent leadership of their military ventures, and the duplicity of foreign courts cost the Jacobite cause much support. 

http://kykinfolks.tripod.com/davis/wmduncan.htm

Cousins

new playlist of my very talented cousins on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbifh7MW_JJ_aa29u-dCdZvCMV0E2YsQp

No Story Too Small #BlogOfTheMonth

www.NoStoryTooSmall.com
#Recommended Reading

Blog of the Month

A selection of fantastic genealogy blogs that will probably come in handy for your research.
#Recommended Reading.