This Is What We Found

 Sisters Charlotte and Jackie talk about family ties in Chester, Delaware County in Pennsylvania. Old family names included in this episode are Grubb, Flower, Hubbell, Stevenson. William Penn is a key player in this premiere episode as well. 

Stream with us in our 2nd episode where we talk more about our Chester, Pennsylvania family names. Topics include Caleb Pusey, Richard Flower, the Stevenson and Lynch families of Chester and of course, William Penn.

In Today's episode, Charlotte and Jackie talk about our 3rd Great Grandfather named William Wheeler Hubbell, his inventions, the $4 Stella coin and some family scandals in Washington D.C. and Philadelphia.

In this weeks genealogy episode Jackie and Charlotte talk about Sisco/Taylor family lines from Baltimore, MD. Freemasonry ties and a Regalia business. Also, Druid Bitters?

This weeks episode finds Charlotte and Jackie chatting about their family ancestry that goes back to the founding of Fairfield County, Connecticut.  A family named Wakeley, P.T.Barnum himself and maybe some accusations of witchcraft. Has anyone ever heard of the famous Independence Day deer?

Charlotte and Jackie dig into their first listener ancestry episode featuring the Gillikin family with deep roots in Carteret County, North Carolina. Discussion includes George Decatur Gillikin and his pet alligator and some random  info about Blackbeard the pirate. Was he a real person and are the stories about the Hammock House in Beaufort true?

This week the ladies tackle a pretty dark topic in what they found in their family tree. A baby farm syndicate carried out by Elizabeth Ashmead in Victorian/Edwardian Philadelphia. Content warning for some. Tune in to see how Elizabeth winds up in Eastern State Penitentiary! Researching family genealogy doesn't always allow the researcher to find happy stories, unfortunately. 

In this weeks episode Jackie & Charlotte finish up the horrifying tale of Mrs. Elizabeth Ashmead and her Philadelphia, South Jersey baby farming syndicate. Unfortunately, not every story you find in your family tree is a pleasant one, some are just as gory as it gets! Genealogy can occasionally be scary! Does anyone else feel the fall weather in the air?

Join us this week as we dive back into Chester Pennsylvania in the world of New Sweden and the earliest Swedish settler Joran Kyn, who eventually started the Keen family line here on the East Coast! William Penn once again makes an appearance and Commodore John Barry. How exciting it was for Jackie and Charlotte to find this! Just who is James Sandle-hands?

This weeks episode carries a conversation concerning just what your DNA matches can tell you and there importance to revealing your true family stories. The girls get into a long hard family story involving the Stuart/Graham lineage. What will the big reveal entail and does Nicholas Cage love his smarties? This is what we found...

In this months listener episode Charlotte and Jackie discuss the Bibb family line originating in France and the places they landed in America to start the varying Bibb lines. Which Bibb do you hail from? Perhaps Benjamin Button is your guy? Our story also involves the sad but victorious tale of one Henry Walter Bibb, author and abolitionist and his journey to freedom in Canada. 

Charlotte and Jackie attempt to concretely trace our Irish roots in County Kerry, Ireland and potential lines in Valentia Island. We barely made it out of this week alive. The John, Michael, Patricks, Marys, Catherines were haunting our dreams and our waking moments. Anyone who researches their Irish roots can surely attest to this overwhelming calamity. Maybe someone can help!? As always our email is thisiswhatwefound2@gmail.com So grab a tasty glass of Glen Flesk or add some to the bath and listen in to this weeks episode of this is what we didn't find!

Befitting of our thirteenth episode and season finale, the girls converse about the infamous Leeds family of Southern New Jersey and the historical controversy of just where the tale of the Jersey Devil stems from. Benjamin Franklin and our guy Caleb Pusey have a part to play that just may make you rethink what you originally heard about the chilling tale of the Leeds Devil. Also, Charlotte needs your help about what county Hammonton, NJ is in because she is lost in her own state. Happy Birthday Michael! 

In our season 2 opener, Jackie and Charlotte cackle about our Lunsford family line that we just happen to share on our mother AND father's sides. Anyone sharing the Lunsford family name from colonial Virginia will find this interesting or a hot mess. Was Sir Thomas Lunsford really the cavalier cannibal like legend says? 

In our listener episode #3 Charlotte and Jackie found not only a bit of a challenge with the Jeffers line from Baltimore, Maryland, but they found an amazing lighthouse tale from Sharps Island and a family history in Barbados! 

The girls attempt a deep dive into the origins of the Campanella line for Larry's Birthday week. Going back to Orsara di Puglia...tune in to hear us butcher Italian words and also discuss Leopold Campanella and his history at Girard College in Philadelphia. There will be cake. Mangia!

This weeks episode kicks off Walter Fest and the girls get into the life story of Walter Hubbell, A great granduncle, and just what his early years might have been like. Traveling far and wide to compile the history of the Hubbell Family, Jackie and Char imagine what that might have entailed. C'mon in, we have Sanka and Entenmann's and an EMF reader. 

Walter Fest continues this week as Charlotte and Jackie discuss the acting career of Walter Hubbell that began in Philadelphia at some of America's earliest theaters. Working along side the famous Edwin Booth, John McCullough, the Drew and Barrymore families who were all iconic in their day, Walter truly had his brush with greatness. 

This week the ladies continue Walter Fest, this time discussing various scenarios where Walter was witness to and a participant in the rise of the Spiritualism movement. Larry's theremin reacts to whether ghosts are "hard." Jackie brings it home with the surprise of the Flintstone family line.

In Ep 20, listeners Ep 4 Walter Fest continues! Char and Jackie go traipsing through the family line and grave site of the great tragedian, John McCullough 1832-1885. Irish born, but local to Philadelphia. Personal friend to Walter Hubbell. We discuss his colorful life and ponder why after his death many mediums claim to channel him.

Walter Fest comes to a finale with our Halloween episode. The girls discuss eerie family stories and Great Uncle Walter Hubbell and his book the Great Amherst Mystery.

Ep 22 leads the girls back to one of the beginning lines in their Virginia roots. Through genetic genealogy the Faulconer and Perry names were discovered with roots in Orange County, Virginia for generations. They also discuss how the surname Faulconer was born from the ancient practice of Falconry! 

Char and Jack time travel back to Riccia, Campobasso, Molise, Italy in honor of little Charlotte's upcoming birthday and her Calabrese lineage. Like bread crumbs and macaroni? Or is it St. Joseph's pasta? Time travel with us back to south Philadelphia and maybe learn a little about the iconic Defeo duck farm in southern NJ!

This week we take a glance at the Wheeler family in New England and New York. From our line in particular, Hannah French and her two spouses, William Wheeler and Silas Hubbell, both hailing from the very old and huge Wheeler line. Jackie shares some Puritan slang!

Fun times this week traipsing around Brandywine Hundred discussing the Talley family, a trip down Foulk Road. Also, Jackie is dying of au poisoning and has never seen the film, The Lawnmower man.

This months listener ep took us on a wild ride that begins mostly in Omagh, Ireland. Tales of the Greer settlement in New Brunswick,  Canada and a whole lotta Philadephia! What are the nickel mines in Pennsylvania? Who cares, because the girls found something monumental this week! 

Happy Holidays! We decided to make it light this week, or did we? Our goal was to each research a random Christmas "letter" and then attempt their family line. Char found a WW2 yuletide love letter and well, Jackie found an amazing tale and then some! 

Ep 30 We bring in the New Year with a lil story on the Pendleton family from England to Virginia, did Catherine Pendleton put a curse on us? What is Women's Christmas? 

This week the ladies discuss one of the many Charlotte's in our family, Charlotte Rutter. Her journey began in Lincolnshire, England in 1802 to start a generational Charlotte naming, or did she? Jackie found another! Listen in this week to see what we found on the Rutter line!

The ladies get into a 2nd great grandmother's story with question marks still looming. The illusive Annie Evelyn Hawkins, a life story that continues to amaze us. From Civil war time Virginia to Chester, Pa. What do we know and how do we know it?

This weeks part 2 continues on with the mysterious life of our 2nd great grandmother Annie Hawkins and just what our DNA is showing us.

The author V.C. Andrews and her family line are the topic this week. We had an absolute blast with this episode! 

In honor of National American Indian Heritage Month we pay homage to iconic Jimi Hendrix and his Cherokee family roots. Jackie has pie and Charlotte had a nightmare. 

The girls cover a story bringing to light a tragic murder tale. George Tompkins upon leaving Carrolltown, PA with a family of 3 others, murdered the entire family. Mr. Tompkins, the husband of Beulah Hubbell, and son of Marietta Hubbell, is our family link. True Crime Fans just might appreciate the tale. 

Sailing into America this week is our featured family paternal line, the Fairchild/Adams ancestors. So fun, and lots of random historical tidbits. Jackie wears a scarlet "D" this week. 

Some darkness unfolds this week with Thomas Patterson Lego, a 2nd Great Grandfather on our paternal side. Having participated in the railroad strike of 1877 did this contribute to what seemed like a very chaotic life? He certaintly was mentioned in newspapers from Harrisburg, PA to Philadelphia on the regular. Just where was margaret born?

This weeks episode we discuss the 10 children of Norman Wheeler Hubbell and Charlotte Bullock Stevenson, our 2nd Great grandparents on our maternal side. We unveil a dna discovery. 

For our listener ep for this month Larry sits in for Charlotte, but  also gets to discuss the family line of one of his all time fav people, Eddie Van Halen. Listen in as Jackie and Larry chat about EVH and his family journey from the Netherlands to the USA.

Lots of fun this week with a special guest! Our cousin, Susan Jess Hoff! The gals researched and discussed Susan's maternal Grandmother's line, the Glass family from PA to NJ. Such a blast this week!

With Charlotte still recovering this week, Jackie and Susie chat about the Jess family origins here in the US, and its importance to the Quaker Society of Friends in NJ. Lots of discussion on Zacharaiah Jess and his marriage into the Lippincott family. As always lots of insight and laughs!

Jackie and the littlest Charlotte are chatting about the Maritime province of Eastern Canada this week. Focusing on Prince Edward Island and the enormity of the Gallant family line.

Charlotte and Jackie are back together again for listener ep 9. In our research for this week we cover a partial line from the Graves family, in particular a Jane Graves who married John Coffey in Essex Co Virginia in 1728. Just what is Gen 28 and more importantly, which Sally Fields are you? Charlotte still has stitches. Ouch. 

Moving right along this week the gals chat about a maternal line this week. The Frame lineage from Lanark, Scotland to smack dab in the middle of the Battle of the Brandywine near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Our Margaret Frame is a 5th GGrandmother and was born that same year. 

Jackie and Char are here to confuse everyone this week with our attempt to explain what we found using genetic genealogy and our connection to the Steele family in Campbell Co, Va. An attempted explanation on who the father of our GGrandfather was and how we feel about it. Welcome aboard, John Henry Steele. 

This week is feelin a bit mid century. The gals dish about the release of the 1950 census and what they did and didnt find...

We defintely made the mistake this week of thinking this episode would be easy, the family tree of Prince Rogers Nelson...We just arent worthy. How could someone like Prince not have some delicious story tucked away? What did we find?

Once again we are drawn to a layered story involving a historic place in Chester, Pennsylvania that features a cast of colorful characters and possibly an explosion...or two. Listen in  to part 1 of a very long tale on the banks of the Delaware River.

Tune in for the conclusion of our chat about the many tales surrounding a house in Chester, Pennsylvania known as The Porter Mansion. 

So interesting this week digging into the Sorce family roots hailing from Sicily. A commune in the Province of Caltanissetta, called Montedoro. The area infamous for generational mining families that all seemed to migrate to Pittston, PA then to Buffalo, NY. 

We made it to 50 episodes folks! In a celebratory manner, we of course have a few cocktails with an obnoxious Q&A! Also included is a bizarre challenge against eachother utilizing genealogy. Salute!

What a wild ride we had with this week's episode! From Germany to Germantown, PA. Then off to Canada, England and even Paris, France! The Cunard family has one of the most varied tidbits of historical significance that we have seen in quite some time! Thank you for the honor of allowing us to dig. 

Wow! Our first year Podaversery! We had a great time this week revisiting our very first ep where we chatted about our family roots connected to the founding of Delco by a 9th GGrandparent, John Grubb . We also looked a little deeper into a man who may have had a horrific accident upon the landing of William Penn onto the Chester shore. What really happened? 

We are BACK biotches! After a quiet summer, the girls are at it once again this week researching a family line that showed up in dna matches on a maternal line. Families going back to a Bartlett Hawkins Fitzgerald of Nelson County Virginia. Maybe you can be of help? We apologize in advance for our awkward silliness. 

As fall approaches this week Jack and Char make "Dutton Muffins" in honor of another maternal line, the Duttons. The muffins do no justice to this regal line going back to William the Conqueror and Odard, Ist Lord of Dutton and the first to use the surname. 

Apologies this week on our late upload of the epiosde it has been launched out into the netherworld, but alas. Here is Listener Ep 12, The Carney Family of Louisiana. Also featured The Whittaker/Whiteacre Family from Baltimore, MD. 

Happy October everyone! Rolling into Walter Fest 2022, Char and Jack bring to you a family line adjacent story of the Booth Mummy! Actor John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln who was apprehended and killed in a VA barn, or was he? Many people claimed to see him or even be him. Walter Hubbell jumped in on the conspiracy to claim this. Oh, there is a Mummy, a traveling one. Was it Booth?

Such spooky fun this week as we recount a story immersed in the Spiritual  movement of the 1800's into the early 1900s. This story is focused on a Psychic medium of the times Mary Ann "May" S Scannell Pepper Vanderbilt. Part 1 of 2!

It has truly been our pleasure this week to wrap up our research into May S. Pepper, AKA Mary Ann Scannell - Vanderbilt. Having been immersed in the worlds of the Spiritualist movement, the Vanderbilt family and all of the craze over her marriage to Edward Ward Vanderbilt, who knew where this story would lead. Was she a con or did she have a gift? Either way, we feel we got to know her a little more intimately than we thought possible. Join us for this weeks Walter Fest special focus!

Keeping things light and creepy this week! We had an interesting time exploring the genealogy and history of one Elijah Bond and his sister-in-law Helen Peters and their role concerning the famous Ouija Board. 

Welcome to our 60th Episode! We couldnt of thought of a better way to wrap up Walter Fest, but to talk about the family line of Richard Cross of NJ famed Cross Castle. Oh, and a little road named Clinton Road.

Jackie and Charlotte get personal this week, telling a long avoided tale of finding our biological Grandfather using DNA. Tales of Dutch Wonderland in PA turned to a trip across the ocean to a place called Gambatesa, Italy. Spoiler alert, we've had wine. 

So much fun this week, who knew?! On a much lighter note, Char and Jack sifted through a maternal line we weren't quite sure was correct. With the help from a new found cousin, we found the Murphy's from Valentia Island, County Kerry. Looking into the island we discovered just what a very compelling and charismatic place it was and still is.  Following our Lynch line back to Valentia we found the Murphy family very intertwined. 

We really hope you missed us! Jackie & Char are BACK to simultaneously disappoint and amaze you all with our chat about a maternal line by the name of Giannini. Just what does Thomas Jefferson and wine bushes have to do with this? Oh, a helluva lot. Join us once again to learn a little or nothing at all, as we chat about Monticello, the Waltons, Charlotte's Web and even the swanky show, Falcon Crest. Also, any questions or comments, reach out to us at Thisiswhatwefound2@gmail.com

We have wanted to chat about the 1890 Census for some time and are happy to say we have made all your wildest dreams come true this week.  In 1921 the collection of papers that compiled the census data of 1890 encountered a significant loss due to a fire, but what we found was this wasnt the first brush with fire for these precious documents! Who was the dancing Professor and why was George intoxicated on the job?

Join us this week as we talk about the Ellsworth family origins, from Cambridgeshire, England, to the new England colonies. Being a maternal line for Larry, this story has mesmerized us. We delve into quite a few tales, including the infamous Addison Ellsworth, who ended up in Eastern State Penitentiary, and the elder Addison and his obsession with Entomology.

Our listener episode for this month is so very rich in cultural heritage that we were pleasantly overwhelmed! The Odell family, hailing from Bedfordshire, England, embarked on a transatlantic journey that led them eventually to the serene area of Sleepy Hollow, NY. This family began a chapter, weaving their own narrative into the tapestry of this historic town that then led the family to branch out to Hammonton, NJ. 

This week, we researched our Bledsoe family line that took us on an unexpected boat trip from Barton Seagrave, England to the Virginia colonies. We uncovered a captivating tale of the "Bledsoe Brothers" and their remarkable connection to Daniel Boone, and the long Hunters of the time. 

Sappy, nostalgic tears and laughs this week as Jackie and Char decide to research the family tree of two leading family lines of the notorious, long running soap opera, Days of our lives. Yep, you read that correctly. Why did we do this? Simply, because we can. 

Let's all cozy up together, cringe and giggle as Jackie & Char spew a deeply intertwined story of the family saga of one James Lord Pierpont of Massachusetts. Author of none other than, Jingle Bells. You know the one.