March 2021

Tracking Peter…

It’s so very cool when you come across evidence of your ancestor from hundreds of years ago. I finally got around to searching through on-line deed books (familysearch.org) for my 5th great-grandfather, Peter Billow. Peter lived in York county in the late 1700s, before moving to Cumberland County (later Perry County) in the early 1810s. […]

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Billow? Hawaiian?

Well, of course, you are asking what Billow has to do with Hawaii. My daughter thought that the story behind it marked the beginning of my interest in genealogy and that it would be a great blog name. In truth, though, I became very interested in family history while in high school after a great

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