Deed from Solomon to Samuel

 

FamilySearch. Hamilton County, OH. 1857.

Here's another land deed from Hamilton County, between Solomon Biddinger and Samuel Oyler. Yesterday's post featured an earlier deed between George Oyler and Biddinger in 1852.

From the Buck Tavern, 1852

 

Ideogram. Marianna Haiss Oyler, 1850. Ohio.

I've shared previously how my 4th-great-grandfather George Oyler Sr was operating the Buck Tavern in Hamilton County, Ohio. My 3rd-great-grandmother, Marianna Haiss, may have been working as a barmaid in the tavern and public house. The imagined scene above shows Marianna cooking a pot of lamb stew.

Courtesy of FamilySearch Full-text search, I found a reference to the Buck Tavern in a deed between George Oyler and Solomon Biddinger from 1852.

FamilySearch. Hamilton County, OH. 1852.

Chromosome Mapping

 

DNAPainter. Chromosome mapping.

I am trying something new to get beyond this brick wall that I have on the family of my Irish 3rd-great-grandmother Bridget. I'm using the tools at DNAPainter to try chromosome mapping, and see if I can identify matches that might descend from Bridget's side of the tree. For this approach, I am working with some of the matches on MyHeritage and FamilyTreeDNA that I had previously identified might be promising connections. I also need another round of guided instruction, and I've scheduled a consultation for next week. It will be interesting to see how this works, but so far, chromosome mapping looks pretty cool.

While I learn more about this approach, I received an electronic reply from the parish secretary in LaSalle, confirming receipt of the required documents. Now I'm waiting to see if there's something in the church archives on the Dooners and O'Briens. If there's nothing, then there likely are not records waiting to be discovered in LaSalle that have the information I've been missing. But if something comes back, that's the tantalizing hope that my brick wall might be opening.

DNA in the news: Genomic history of the early dogs of Europe

 

IMDB. Alpha (2018).

A new publication in Nature (25 March 2026) dives into the early history of dogs in Europe. Open access versions can be read here:

• Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia
• Genomic history of early dogs in Europe

Planning another visit to the old country

 

Photo by Patrick Jones. Sevilla. 27 Aug 2019.

In August 2019, we had an extended trip to Portugal and Spain that took us to Sevilla. I'll be returning this summer for our mid-year meeting, and to scope out spots for future visits there in early 2027. I am still working on one of our Spanish ancestral lines, but this one seems to point to Northern Spain, possibly Cantabria. We're awaiting Big Y results for another Campuzano cousin that may provide a more recent branch point before this line appeared in Sonora, Mexico.