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.By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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.By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

This week, Charlotte and Jackie decided to take a turn in our usual dialogue and shine some light on the hidden corners of genealogical message boards. We randomly come across posts that absolutley confuse us, make us laugh or even educate us!By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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 h…

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…

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 wa…

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, Ch…

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. Follow…

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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.By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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? …

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!By J.Taylor & C. Campanella

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.…

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.By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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.…

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…

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.By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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!By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

Tune in for the conclusion of our chat about the many tales surrounding a house in Chester, Pennsylvania known as The Porter Mansion.By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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?By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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...By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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.…

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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.…

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.By J. Taylor, C. Calabree, C. Campanella

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!By J. Taylor, S. Jess Hoff, C. Campanella

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!By C. Campanella, S. Hoff & J. Taylor

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.By C. Campanella J. Taylor L. Campanella

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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?…

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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

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.By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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?By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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!

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?By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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!By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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!By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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.…

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor

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!By J. Taylor & C. Campanella

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!…

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!

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.By C. Campanella & J. Taylor