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Message Number: 93 - Mon, Oct 23, 2023 12:47:03
[IP = 72.209.79.111] -
Name:  Paul Ferguson
Connection to the Family?:  Cecile Iris Congrove
Comments:

Checking to see if any Congrove updates


Message Number: 92 - Tue, Aug 29, 2023 12:00:58
[IP = 97.125.33.52] -
Name:  Bennie Berkshire Jr
Connection to the Family?:  Grandson to Virgil E. P. Oatney
Please leave email address for response:  Norwalk
Comments:

Wow! This is very impressive!
Bennie Berkshire Jr. (Jay)


Message Number: 91 - Private Message

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Message Number: 89 - Mon, Feb 13, 2023 08:04:42
[IP = 107.192.137.74] -
Name:  Carol J Anderson
Connection to the Family?:  William Congrove Sr Descendant
Please leave email address for response:  andersonray83@yahoo.com
Comments:

Regarding William Congrove. According to records Culpepper Minute Men from Fauquier show Captain James Scott of Fauquier VA and Colonel John Green did have a militia of Minute Men. Historical records "By the end of the first week of November it was clear that half the Culpepper Minute Men could not be equiped. On Nov 8th The Committee of Safety ordered the Chief of the Virginia forces, Col. Patrick Henry, to discharge the remainder of the Minute Battalion from duty at Headquarters 6. The married men were discharged, some joined other units. This listed Captain James Scott, Fauquier as a discharged unit. So, this supports the Revolutionary War pension S19261 claim!




Message Number: 88 - Tue, Nov 1, 2022 13:43:54
[IP = 24.250.136.73] -
Name:  Paul Ferguson
Connection to the Family?:  grandson of John William Congrove
Please leave email address for response:  pwfocala@gmail.com
Comments:

Tanks for your detailed work.


Message Number: 87 - Thu, Oct 13, 2022 19:49:17
[IP = 73.243.26.96] -
Name:  Craig
Connection to the Family?:  Fruehauf
Please leave email address for response:  craigskelly@yahoo.com
Comments:

I have lots more information on the Fruehaufs if you or anyone else ever needs it

craigskelly (at) yahoo dot com


Message Number: 86 - Tue, Jul 5, 2022 11:21:31
[IP = 45.30.112.119] -
Name:  Barbara J McAdoo
Connection to the Family?:  Granddaughter of Frederick Anton Otteni
Please leave email address for response:  bjmcadoo@comcast.net
Comments:

Thanks for taking on this task. We have come across a photo of a gentleman that is obviously an Otteni. He is wearing a WWII Army uniform. It was taken at the Comer Studio in Tullahoma TN. It is not labeled. How might I go about determining who he is? Any suggestions?


One of my first cousins on the Otteni side has possession of this and other originals.


Let me know if I can email his picture to you.


Message Number: 85 - Sun, Feb 20, 2022 12:23:25
[IP = 68.101.80.128] -
Name:  Paul Ferguson
Connection to the Family?:  J.W. & Minnie Congrove were grandparents
Comments:

Checking to see if updates since last check.


Message Number: 84 - Thu, Jan 20, 2022 12:13:14
[IP = 97.84.232.224] -
Name:  Bill Collin
Connection to the Family?:  My mother was Catherine (Ottney) Collin
Please leave email address for response:  Wjcollin@gmail.com
Comments:

Good afternoon,






We spoke a few years ago and discussed the oral history of my father Joseph Ottney B1901/D1965 who was born in the Jackson Michigan area as possibly being adopted. I’ve recently been working on my tree and dug much deeper into this mystery.





The story I was told by my mother Catherine (Ottney) Collin (1942-1997) was that her father relayed that he was actually adopted into the Ottney family. There were no obvious (to me) ties in the family tree, but a clue was that my mother believed the family name to be Dorr or Door.





I completed Ancestry’s DNA test a few years ago and in the last week or so have been searching completing several branches of my tree and started looking for a connection for my grandfather Joseph. Once I started using Dorr and Door in my DNA search, I started turning up 2nd and 3rd cousins via DNA that were part of DORER family trees.





I was able to narrow down to a few potential matches, then discovered the entire story by way of Ancestry’s library where I found my actual Great Grandmother’s death certificate.





Joseph (Dorer) Ottney was actually born to Joseph Dorer (1858-1952) and Kate Walter (1861-1901). Joseph was the 9th child of the family to be born in 12 years and Kate died of a post partum hemorrhage on the day of Joe’s birth - December 13, 1901 and was buried a couple of days later.





Some confusion follows, as it appears that EMMA WALTERS (1884-1932) - surely some relative of Kate’s - left a servant job where she’s been serving a married 70-something couple and moved in with Joseph to care of the 9 children or at least the 8 they kept. He was 43 and she was 17. Regardless of how it started, the two married two years later and had four more children of their own. This gave my grandfather Joseph 8 full siblings plus 4 half siblings.





The DORER family originally hails from Baden - just like the OTTNEY family and WALTER family, so there is likely some strong underlying connection as all three families ended up largely in the Jackson, Michigan area.