Remember the famous nursery rhyme “Mary had a Little Lamb”… I’m sure we all have the first couple lines memorized Thanks to Uncle Paul we have discovered the we are related to the actual Mary who had a little lamb that followed her to school one day. Read more about Mary Elizabeth Sawyer as Mary […]
Category Archives: Geneology
The Benton’s are related to Joseph Smith
I wanted to post the email from Uncle Paul stating that the Benton family line connects us to Joseph Smith. Thanks Aunt Debbie for the research and Uncle Paul for sharing! Hello everyone, Debby suggested I send you a note to let you know that Joseph Smith is our cousin. We are all related to […]
Bentons connected to the Mayflower and the Pilgrims
Have you ever wanted to find a tie back to a famous relative? I always thought it would be cool to say I’m a descendant of someone famous. Now here’s a little link to some Benton family fame. This information comes from Joan Benton Barber… (her father is Rueben Clark Benton, the brother of Robert […]
Splitting and Merging Paf Files
The other day I was working with my mom, Cheri Benton and she needed her line of geneology in a PAF file. Well all I had was my complete file starting with me and including all my geneology and Carrie’s geneology as well. How do I get my mom’s information out and not include all […]
Transcript to Nadine Virginia Harms Audio
Here is the transcript of the audio recording of Nadine Virgina Harms that was recorded sometime in the early 1980’s. Special thanks to Paul Benton (Uncle Paul) for the transcript. I’ve included it as actual text in this post as well as a text file for download. Here is audio recording link if you haven’t […]