Tad Callin

Ancestors

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Biography

Tad Callin is a member of the Callan Name Study Project.

Tad was born and raised in Arizona and has been researching family history since the mid-1990s. He has done work for the Escape Artists podcast family as an editor, host, and narrator. He also narrated a story for Starship Sofa and published a short story of his own in the Dunesteef audio fiction magazine.

• Sentient Being Blues by Christopher Mark Rose
• Silver by Tad Callin
• How I Killed Your Mother by Evan Dicken

Family History work

Tad has published a memoir, Tad's Happy Funtime, as well as The Callin Family History and a book of Civil War poetry by his great-great-grandfather:

• The Callin Family History
• War Poems by John H. Callin

To see Tad's genealogical works in progress, visit Mightier Acorns where he shares his latest research.

You can also find him on the Mightier Acorns Facebook page.

My Sixteen (2nd great-grandparents) surnames:

Local Histories

I have found old local histories to be useful, but you have to be careful about trusting them. They can omit or exaggerate myths and family legends. I have found that the best approach is to document what they say, and then use primary sources to either confirm or refute the published information.

For the sake of collaboration, it is never a good idea to simply ignore them or remove incorrect information from a profile - it is always better to document which information is "wrong" and explain why with evidence. Future researchers are likely to find that local history (or obituary, or hand-written recollection) anyway, and if they see that you already documented it, you will save them the time and effort that you put into discovering the truth.

As I work to add citations to local histories in my research, I also plan to make sure those sources have a "Space:" page that collects links to existing online versions or to library and society collections. Until I find a Project that covers this, I'm documenting the Spaces I've contributed to here:

Family Histories:

• The Bellamys of Early Virginia
• The Callen Chronicles
• The Callin Family History
• History of the Carter family
• History of The Faxon Family
• Genealogy of the Greenlee Families: In America, Scotland, Ireland and England
• James McCullough and Descendants

Local Histories:

• New England families, genealogical and memorial (Cutter)
• Connecticut
  • Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut
• Indiana
  • History of Randolph County, Indiana
• Iowa
  • History of Louisa County, Iowa
  • Memorial & Biographical Record of Iowa
• Kansas
  • History of Allen and Woodson counties, Kansas
• New York
  • Genealogical and family history of central New York
  • History of Lewis County, New York
  • History of Rochester and Monroe county, New York
  • History of Oneida County, New York
  • History of Oneida County, New York, 1667-1878
• Ohio
  • History of Ashland County, Ohio (Baughman)
  • History of Ashland County, Ohio (Hill)
  • History of Ashland County, Ohio (Knapp)
  • History of Huron County, Ohio
  • Commemorative biographical record of the counties of Huron and Lorain, Ohio
  • History of Richland County, Ohio (Graham) (1880)
  • A centennial biographical history of Richland county, Ohio (Baughman) (1901)
  • History of Richland County, Ohio, from 1808 to 1908 (Baughman) (1908)
  • Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio
• Pennsylvania
  • Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania
  • Biographical and historical cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong counties, Pennsylvania
  • History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Tad Callin at registration.