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About 16 years ago, at a Gubler family reunion, we (the kids) decided to reenact the life story of our ancestor Susanna Mehitable Rogers Sangiovanni Pickett Keate.  Quite a long name, but she filled it with such an interesting life.  From being born in Montreal, growing up first in rural Quebec and then moving to New York City, marrying an Italian Napoleonic revolutionary, moving to England, joining the LDS (Mormon) church and moving back, and eventually crossing the plains with her two sons and dying at the age of 91 in St. George, Utah, she led a very exciting and unusual life for a woman of her time.  My mom’s cousin Jane Rae Topham has written a book about her life entitled “In Search of Living Water”.  However, this blog is about her scoundrel of a husband, William Pickett. (more…)

I think it’s always interesting when I discover a relative that leaves his mark on the landscape. Since I don’t have many “famous” ancestors to speak of (except my one connection to Abraham Lincoln - my relative was his mother’s step-father), it’s always nice to find visible remnants of my relatives.

While looking on Google Maps I found a road called “Tinnin Ford Road”. This road is named after my relative Hugh Tinnin who purchased 500 acres of Colorado River frontage land (land now that would be included almost entirely in Austin City limits) in the 1850’s. His daughter - Lucy Jane Tinnin - from his first wife Betsy Rutherford was my third great grandmother.

Here’s a small history on him:

Hugh Tinnin
Born in 1800, died in Burleson County, Texas 13 December 1869.

HISTORY: Hugh Tinnin moved with his family from Mississippi to Washington County, Arkansas in about 1836. When his first wife Betsy Rutherford died, he married her sister Fanny Rutherford. Betsy probably died while the family still lived in Mississippi. Fanny died in Washington County where he met his third wife, Helen Mary Kirkpatrick, whose family had moved from Kentucky to Fayetteville, Arkansas. Letters addressed to him were addressed to Mr. Hugh Tinnin, Esquire, Boonsboro, Arkansas. Federal Census shows his residence in Mountain Township.

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Welcome to iGenealogy.org. What do you get when you combine two amatuer and one professional genealogyist who research their family roots? This site, of course.

iGenealogy.org was started by three friends who all share the common interest in doing family genealogy. Only one of us gets to do it as a full-time job, while the other two find time to do research on evenings and weekends as time permits. Living in Utah makes us spoiles by having the largest depostory of genealogical records - the Family History Library in Salt Lake City - to gain quick access to research materials.

We hope you enjoy the site and glean some good information. If you’re working on the same family names or lines, or just genealogy buffs yourselves, we’d love to hear from you.

Thank you! - Abraham, Daniel, Brad