Stephanie Glotfelty
@bonniegenealogist.bsky.social
Teacher & Genealogist, QG www.bonniegenealogy.com
www.bonniegenealogy.blog
-MSc Genealogical, Palaeographic, & Heraldic Studies, Univ Strathclyde
-ProGen38
-Fulbright ETA Kraków, Poland
-MA Linguistics/TESOL, USC
-BA English & Secondary Ed, William & Mary
www.bonniegenealogy.blog
-MSc Genealogical, Palaeographic, & Heraldic Studies, Univ Strathclyde
-ProGen38
-Fulbright ETA Kraków, Poland
-MA Linguistics/TESOL, USC
-BA English & Secondary Ed, William & Mary
Here's Week 28. Two of my 6x great grandfathers & their families moved to Canada. One, Benoni Wiltse, sort of "traveled for work"... as he was a Loyalist in the Revolution and moved to Canada because he fought for the British. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
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Week 28: Travel
My 3x-great-grandfather Isaac Newton Chipman embodied the complexity of colonial American heritage — he’s a great-grandson of the Patriot Ammi Chipman and a great-grandson of the Loyali…
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December 16, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Here's Week 28. Two of my 6x great grandfathers & their families moved to Canada. One, Benoni Wiltse, sort of "traveled for work"... as he was a Loyalist in the Revolution and moved to Canada because he fought for the British. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/12/16/w...
Here's Week 27 of #52Ancestors about my great-grandpa Louis Rajchel's butcher-grocery store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His store was an integral part of the community and was involved in less-than-legal activities during Prohibition...! #genealogy #ancestry bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/12/09/w...
Week 27: Family Business
After immigrating to the United States in 1912, Louis worked several jobs (laborer in the sewer, at a brewery, in an auto shop) before becoming the owner of a butcher-grocery with his wife, Della. …
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December 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Here's Week 27 of #52Ancestors about my great-grandpa Louis Rajchel's butcher-grocery store in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His store was an integral part of the community and was involved in less-than-legal activities during Prohibition...! #genealogy #ancestry bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/12/09/w...
Here's Week 26 of #52Ancestors about my favorite name. In this case, the name of an ancestral couple: Obadiah Eddy and Phebe Prouty. So fun to say! #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry
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Week 26: Favorite Name
My favorite (hopefully correct) ancestral couple, entirely because of their names, are Obadiah Eddy and Phebe Prouty. Just say it aloud. It sounds like it must be fake, but it’s not. It’…
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December 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Here's Week 26 of #52Ancestors about my favorite name. In this case, the name of an ancestral couple: Obadiah Eddy and Phebe Prouty. So fun to say! #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/12/05/w...
Here's week 25 about the FAN (friends, associates, neighbors) club. This is about my great-grandpa Ludwik "Louis" Rajchel and his friendship with Wladyslaw "Walter" Szajna and their families -- both from Iwonicz, Podkarpackie, Poland. #52Ancestors #genealogy
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/11/26/w...
Week 25: FAN Club
On their passenger lists, both Ludwik Rajchel (my great-grandfather) and his sister Tekla said they were going to see their brother Joe at 1062 Bremen Street in Milwaukee. There’s another fam…
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November 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Here's week 25 about the FAN (friends, associates, neighbors) club. This is about my great-grandpa Ludwik "Louis" Rajchel and his friendship with Wladyslaw "Walter" Szajna and their families -- both from Iwonicz, Podkarpackie, Poland. #52Ancestors #genealogy
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/11/26/w...
Still catching up and still woefully behind... but here's Week 24 of #52Ancestors about my Polish great-grandma's cousin who was a sign painter, probably for theatres, in New York City. A tortured artist, in the end. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/10/16/w...
Week 24: Artistic
My maternal great-grandmother used to talk about her cousin who was an artist in New York. My grandma had remembered that his name was Felix, but as it turns out, Felix was his father — and t…
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October 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Still catching up and still woefully behind... but here's Week 24 of #52Ancestors about my Polish great-grandma's cousin who was a sign painter, probably for theatres, in New York City. A tortured artist, in the end. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/10/16/w...
For Week 23 of #52Ancestors about "wedding bells," I instead wrote about someone who didn't get married -- "Aunt Nan," my grandpa's great-aunt, who was thought to have been a mean old biddy by our family for many years. We were wrong. #genealogy #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/09/06/w...
Week 23: Wedding Bells
My great-grandma’s Aunt Nan was known by my grandfather as an unmarried woman who lived with them for some reason and he seemed to be more than a little annoyed that she would take their chic…
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September 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
For Week 23 of #52Ancestors about "wedding bells," I instead wrote about someone who didn't get married -- "Aunt Nan," my grandpa's great-aunt, who was thought to have been a mean old biddy by our family for many years. We were wrong. #genealogy #familyhistory bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/09/06/w...
Reposted by Stephanie Glotfelty
Remains of Maryland Founding Family to be Reburied Along with Rare 17th-Century Lead Coffins #Genealogy www.chesapeakebaymagazine.com/remains-of-m...
Remains of MD Founding Family to be Reburied Along with Rare 17th-Century Lead Coffins | Chesapeake Bay Magazine
It’s one of the Chesapeake Bay waterfront’s oldest and most compelling histories. The remains of nearly 60 early settlers were unearthed one by one from a site in Historic St. Mary’s City…
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September 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Remains of Maryland Founding Family to be Reburied Along with Rare 17th-Century Lead Coffins #Genealogy www.chesapeakebaymagazine.com/remains-of-m...
#52Ancestors Week 22 is about the Glattfelder Reunion, which has been going on for 120 years. I learned when my line back to the original immigrant was confirmed, and there's a bit of name-dropping just for kicks. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
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Week 22: Reunion
The 120th Glattfelder Reunion was held this summer (July 2025) near York, Pennsylvania, where Casper Glattfelder and his family immigrated in 1743. “Kaspar” was baptized in Glattfelden,…
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September 3, 2025 at 2:04 AM
#52Ancestors Week 22 is about the Glattfelder Reunion, which has been going on for 120 years. I learned when my line back to the original immigrant was confirmed, and there's a bit of name-dropping just for kicks. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory
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Here's Week 21 of #52Ancestors. This is about my great-great grandpa's brother Henry R. Boley, who was killed at age 19 fighting for the Union at the Battle of Arkansas Post, which was part of the Vicksburg Campaign. #genealogy #familyhistory #CivilWar #ancestry
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Week 21: Military
In Week 10, I talked about my great-great grandfather James Franklin Boley and his siblings’ childhood tragedy of losing their parents and two of their other siblings within 5 months of each …
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August 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here's Week 21 of #52Ancestors. This is about my great-great grandpa's brother Henry R. Boley, who was killed at age 19 fighting for the Union at the Battle of Arkansas Post, which was part of the Vicksburg Campaign. #genealogy #familyhistory #CivilWar #ancestry
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/08/29/w...
Finally finished Week 20 of #52Ancestors about "wheels". Here are stories of buggies and cars, mostly to do with my grandpa and his mom, a ballsy lady who didn't mind showing up the youngins. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory #Ford #Farmall bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/08/25/w...
Week 20: Wheels
My great-grandmother, Mary Susan Boley Glotfelty (1895-1989), whom we called “Grandma G”, wrote about 44 handwritten pages of reminiscences in 1981 when she was 86 years old. She titled…
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August 26, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Finally finished Week 20 of #52Ancestors about "wheels". Here are stories of buggies and cars, mostly to do with my grandpa and his mom, a ballsy lady who didn't mind showing up the youngins. #genealogy #ancestry #familyhistory #Ford #Farmall bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/08/25/w...
More Civil War record images from the National Archives posted! www.bonniegenealogy.com/resources
New ones are:
Albert, Isaac N, Joseph B, & William A Chipman
Ezra Dautrich
Cornelius & John Dunnick
William C Dunnuck
Jacob Glotfelty
Augustus, Daniel M, John M, & William M Seyler
#genealogy #NARA
New ones are:
Albert, Isaac N, Joseph B, & William A Chipman
Ezra Dautrich
Cornelius & John Dunnick
William C Dunnuck
Jacob Glotfelty
Augustus, Daniel M, John M, & William M Seyler
#genealogy #NARA
BonnieGenealogy.com - Resources
Below are resources my family has gathered over the years. Please reach out if you have questions or would like permission to use the images. -- Stephanie Glotfelty (Email: BonnieGenealogist@gmail.c...
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August 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
More Civil War record images from the National Archives posted! www.bonniegenealogy.com/resources
New ones are:
Albert, Isaac N, Joseph B, & William A Chipman
Ezra Dautrich
Cornelius & John Dunnick
William C Dunnuck
Jacob Glotfelty
Augustus, Daniel M, John M, & William M Seyler
#genealogy #NARA
New ones are:
Albert, Isaac N, Joseph B, & William A Chipman
Ezra Dautrich
Cornelius & John Dunnick
William C Dunnuck
Jacob Glotfelty
Augustus, Daniel M, John M, & William M Seyler
#genealogy #NARA
Here's (the late) Week 19 of #52Ancestors about the amazing #LondonArchives, #GuildhallLibrary, and #BritishLibrary and how their archivists & librarians helped us track our criminal ancestor with records that aren't available online. #genealogy #familyhistory
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Week 19: At the Library (John Dunnick: Part III)
The John Dunnick saga (see Part I and Part II for background on “our thief”!) got much more interesting once we were able to use the incredible records available at the London Archives …
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July 30, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Here's (the late) Week 19 of #52Ancestors about the amazing #LondonArchives, #GuildhallLibrary, and #BritishLibrary and how their archivists & librarians helped us track our criminal ancestor with records that aren't available online. #genealogy #familyhistory
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/07/30/w...
Here's the very late Week 18 of #52Ancestors about my 4x great-grandfather Southey King Timmons and his brother Smith Timmons, who shortly after moving from Delaware to Ohio, were in 1837 accused of murder. #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/07/15/w...
Week 18: Institutions
One of my paternal 3x great-grandmothers was Eunice “Nicy” M. Timmons. She was born around 1839 likely in Circleville, Pickaway County, Ohio, to Southey King Timmons and Twilley Timmons…
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July 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Here's the very late Week 18 of #52Ancestors about my 4x great-grandfather Southey King Timmons and his brother Smith Timmons, who shortly after moving from Delaware to Ohio, were in 1837 accused of murder. #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/07/15/w...
Getting a bit closer to being caught up with #52Ancestors! Here's Week 17 about DNA -- this one is about how using 23andMe's mt-DNA haplogroup info and their genetic family tree helped to figure out what happened to my great-grandmother's missing aunt. #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/23/w...
Week 17: DNA
Mt-DNA is inherited from one’s mother, whether you’re male or female. It mutates quite slowly, so even if you have an exact match with someone, your shared maternal ancestor could be fr…
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June 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Getting a bit closer to being caught up with #52Ancestors! Here's Week 17 about DNA -- this one is about how using 23andMe's mt-DNA haplogroup info and their genetic family tree helped to figure out what happened to my great-grandmother's missing aunt. #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/23/w...
Still working on catching up on #52Ancestors. Here's Week 16 -- about my most unbalanced ancestor, John Howland, the guy who fell off the Mayflower. #genealogy #familyhistory #mayflower #pilgrims #johnhowland #Fenstanton
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/21/w...
Week 16: Oldest Story
The oldest story isn’t really one that was passed down, per se, but one that my grandmother learned once she found her earliest immigrant ancestor, John Howland: He’s the guy who fell o…
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June 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Still working on catching up on #52Ancestors. Here's Week 16 -- about my most unbalanced ancestor, John Howland, the guy who fell off the Mayflower. #genealogy #familyhistory #mayflower #pilgrims #johnhowland #Fenstanton
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/21/w...
Here's Week 15 about the mistake of trusting early published genealogies that are unsourced. So -- Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Connecticut, is NOT a link to fancy shmancy English ancestors. Who is he? No one knows. #52Ancestors #genealogy #familyhistory
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/16/w...
Week 15: Big Mistake
When I started getting more into genealogy, I worked through each line of the tree my grandmother had created. She did genealogy before the Internet — before access to millions of records was…
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June 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Here's Week 15 about the mistake of trusting early published genealogies that are unsourced. So -- Richard Goodrich of Guilford, Connecticut, is NOT a link to fancy shmancy English ancestors. Who is he? No one knows. #52Ancestors #genealogy #familyhistory
bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/16/w...
bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/16/w...
Here's the (late) Week 14 post on my dad's French ancestors immigrating in the 1840s and ending up in Cedar Township, Jefferson County, Iowa, which was nicknamed "Frenchtown". As the name suggests, there were LOTS of French people there! #52Ancestors #genealogy
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Week 14: Language
The most recent immigrants on my dad’s side came to the US in the mid 1840s from Territoire de Belfort in France. Belfort is in eastern France, formerly part of the historical regions of Alsa…
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June 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Here's the (late) Week 14 post on my dad's French ancestors immigrating in the 1840s and ending up in Cedar Township, Jefferson County, Iowa, which was nicknamed "Frenchtown". As the name suggests, there were LOTS of French people there! #52Ancestors #genealogy
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/15/w...
Now that school is over, I was able to finish what should have been finished back in March! So here's a (very late) Week 13 of #52Ancestors -- about some ancestors who helped found Guilford, Connecticut and the houses they lived in. #genealogy #familyhistory
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/14/w...
Week 13: Home Sweet Home
I went to Maine with some friends a few summers ago for vacation, and we stopped in Guilford, Connecticut, as a half-way point in the long drive. My very patient friends indulged me as I went in se…
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June 15, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Now that school is over, I was able to finish what should have been finished back in March! So here's a (very late) Week 13 of #52Ancestors -- about some ancestors who helped found Guilford, Connecticut and the houses they lived in. #genealogy #familyhistory
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bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/06/14/w...
Reposted by Stephanie Glotfelty
Who else is counting down to the #1960census public release on April 1, 2032? This one is gonna be huge. The first post-war census that contains the largest jump in population in American history. #BabyBoomers #Genealogy www.archives.gov/news/article...
National Archives Begins Work on 1960 Census Records Release
By Angela Tudico | National Archives News Enlarge New microfilm scanners ready to digitize the 41,000 rolls of the 1960 Census. Photo courtesy of Denise Henderson. WASHINGTON, November 28, 2022 — Thou...
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April 26, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Who else is counting down to the #1960census public release on April 1, 2032? This one is gonna be huge. The first post-war census that contains the largest jump in population in American history. #BabyBoomers #Genealogy www.archives.gov/news/article...
Peter Cunningham survived being shot in the head at Gettysburg and in the leg at Spotsylvania. He married, had three children, and died young due to complications from his injuries in battle, aged just 46. He was my 3x-ggma's brother. #52Ancestors #genealogy
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Week 12: Historic Event
My 3x great-grandmother’s brother Peter Cunningham, written about last week in the brick wall post, enlisted in the Civil War when he was just 17. He fought at Gettysburg and Spotsylvania …
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April 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Peter Cunningham survived being shot in the head at Gettysburg and in the leg at Spotsylvania. He married, had three children, and died young due to complications from his injuries in battle, aged just 46. He was my 3x-ggma's brother. #52Ancestors #genealogy
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For the #52Ancestors prompt about brick walls, I had to write about my Irish 4th-great-grandparents. It seems like everyone who's at all Irish has to have an Irish ancestor brick wall. It's like a rite of passage of Irish #genealogy. This is mine. bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/03/19/w...
Week 11: Brick Wall
My most stubborn brick wall to date are my Irish 4x great-grandparents. Every record I’ve found concerning them or their children only say “Ireland” for where they were from ̵…
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March 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
For the #52Ancestors prompt about brick walls, I had to write about my Irish 4th-great-grandparents. It seems like everyone who's at all Irish has to have an Irish ancestor brick wall. It's like a rite of passage of Irish #genealogy. This is mine. bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/03/19/w...
This is about 2x-gr-gpa James Franklin Boley and his siblings: they lost both parents and 2 siblings within 5 months, and later lost another sibling in the Civil War. It's good they had each other to rely on through such difficult times. #52Ancestors #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/03/16/w...
Week 10: Siblings
James Franklin Boley, a paternal great-great grandfather, went through a great deal with his siblings, including loss, guardianship, and companionship. He and his sister, Nancy Ann “Nan”…
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March 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
This is about 2x-gr-gpa James Franklin Boley and his siblings: they lost both parents and 2 siblings within 5 months, and later lost another sibling in the Civil War. It's good they had each other to rely on through such difficult times. #52Ancestors #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/03/16/w...
Reposted by Stephanie Glotfelty
I was really moved by @marcelias.bsky.social's Open Letter to Elon Musk. In more ways than one. So I wrote one of my own.
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February 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I was really moved by @marcelias.bsky.social's Open Letter to Elon Musk. In more ways than one. So I wrote one of my own.
jenmen.substack.com/p/my-open-le...
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Week 9 of #52Ancestors: family secrets. One of my great-grandma's cousins came to the U.S. in 1924 from Poland using a fake identity. His own son didn't even know until after he passed away, and now he's given me permission to share his father's story. #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/02/24/w...
Week 9: Family Secret
Shortly after my great-grandma’s cousin died in 1989, his son was cleaning out his house and found a passport in the back of his sock drawer. He recognized the young man in the photo as his f…
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February 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Week 9 of #52Ancestors: family secrets. One of my great-grandma's cousins came to the U.S. in 1924 from Poland using a fake identity. His own son didn't even know until after he passed away, and now he's given me permission to share his father's story. #genealogy bonniegenealogy.blog/2025/02/24/w...