This is Marty & my 31st Wedding
Anniversary, and I’m only about 2,500 miles from her and home. Such are the travails of doing a
“Peregrination”.
This
morning, I drove on out to the Shallenberger Nature Preserve about 5 miles
south of Lancaster, and walked the trails to do a bit of birding. I'd stopped here back in the year 2000 when we were doing a family "genealogy" vacation, but wanted to walk the trail system. The trail is a figure 8, with one section up some
steps that overlooks the surrounding area. I got
turned around and hiked the same loop twice, so
if you visit you need to pay attention which direction you go at the junctions at the middle of
the figure 8.
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| I did recognize this "chipper" . . . the Eastern Chipmunk |
On the
other hand, I can enjoy the flowers of a beautiful spring morning in central
Ohio.
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| I don't have a Flora for Ohio, so will look these up later . . . |
At 11
a.m., I left the Preserve to return to town, where I availed myself of Lancaster's Fairfield County Genealogical Library for much of the afternoon - getting materials for my Anderson and Macklin/Mechling/Mechlin ancestors.
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| If I've violated some copyright thingy . . . oops. |
I am on a quest to find the origins of my
Great-Great-Great Grandfather Thomas Anderson, who is recorded as having come
to Fairfield County from “Virginia”.
Virginia in 1810 was a much larger place than nowadays, so where to
begin? The Andersons in Virginia
apparently tended to all name their male children Samuel, Thomas, William,
Levi, and James. If
anyone has information on Thomas Anderson, born October 15, 1787 in Virginia,
and married Mary Magdalene Macklin in Ohio in 1810, I’d greatly appreciate
hearing from them.
I left
the folks at the Library a nice donation for all their help, and left town,
heading south, and ending up in Oxford, Ohio at the Butler Inn, which is bare bones, clean, and
inexpensive.
Shallenberger Nature Preserve eBird Checklist is Here
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