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by JanetS
Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:20 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Livingston researcher needs repository for correspondence
Replies: 1
Views: 10816

Livingston researcher needs repository for correspondence

For many years before the internet, Ronna Eagle, edited a national Livingston newsletter and kept up correspondence back and forth between Livingston researchers. She is now looking for a repository where she can donate the correspondence files. Ronna descends from the German Liebensteins who became...
by JanetS
Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:28 am
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: James Livingston/Catherina Kuhn ancestry
Replies: 80
Views: 154292

Re: James Livingston/Catherina Kuhn ancestry

Meant to say, I know the Starings are in the Knittle book.
Janet
by JanetS
Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:27 am
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: James Livingston/Catherina Kuhn ancestry
Replies: 80
Views: 154292

Re: James Livingston/Catherina Kuhn ancestry

I went back to the huge YDNA database which is kept on this website, and there is a John Livingston b. 1603 (I think) in Edinburgh, Scotland, who died 8 August 1672 Rotterdam, Holland. Perhaps he had a son James. In the database, his descendent's YDNA is in the Clermont group. That will mean somethi...
by JanetS
Sat Sep 08, 2012 3:03 am
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: James Livingston/Catherina Kuhn ancestry
Replies: 80
Views: 154292

Re: James Livingston/Catherina Kuhn ancestry

It would be difficult to tie James Livingston/Catherina Kuhn to the German Liebenstein family without a YDNA test of a male descendent. There are at least five families of Liebensteins (sometimes spelled Libenstein, Lowesteyn, Lowenstein) who came from Duhren, Baden, Germany, during the 18th century...
by JanetS
Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:38 pm
Forum: Ancestral Search
Topic: Hugh Livingston b 1821 Lawrence Co, PA,USA parents from Scot
Replies: 5
Views: 12442

Re: Hugh Livingston b 1821 Lawrence Co, PA,USA parents from

Audrie, It may be that your Hugh Livingston was a son of Hugh Levingston who shows up in the 1820 census for Neshanock, Mercer Co, Pennsylvania, or maybe a son of William Levingston who is a few miles north in Lackawonnock, Mercer Co. Both are ages 26-45 in the census and have large families. Neshan...