I traced the long line of the Baugh family lineage with an expectation of how things might have been. But I wasn't prepared to discover how things really were.
The Invisible Line
The Map to Frederick
Mistakes keep us humble, don't they? How about the time I researched the wrong ancestor because I didn't look at a map Yep...that happened.
It’s complicated.
The question made the rounds in Twitter's genealogy community: Did any of your distant cousins marry their step-siblings? Oh, do I have a story to tell about William Bass and his brother! Or was it his brother-in-law? Or was it both?
Dangerous Assumptions
William Bass was too young to serve in the Revolutionary War in 1779, or so I assumed. I was wrong.
Baugh, Bass, and Beyond 