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April 3, 2023 – The First Official Blog Post – And Why Now?

April 3, 2023 – The First Official Blog Post – And Why Now?

Today is journal entry #1 and the beginning of the public release of this story of the life of Oliver Cromwell Kelly, as only his family may reveal. For the past 14 years, I have been researching the life of Oliver Cromwell Kelly (Later Oliver Cromwell Gilbert), and...

The Birth of a Passion

The Birth of a Passion

How this passion took root: In 2009, I was enjoying a standing monthly dinner with cousins and mentioned that my genealogical research had hit the period in history where I met our family’s enslavement. Dismayed, I suggested that I’d expected my research may find it’s...

Podcasting with Fergus Bordewich

Podcasting with Fergus Bordewich

At the start of 2022, just as I had completed my retirement from AT&T (following 28 years there), taken 1 month off and then started a new role leading sales and marketing for Sequential Technologies, Inc, I received a call from a longtime associate in the world...

Stephanie Gilbert

Stephanie Gilbert is the 2nd great granddaughter of Oliver Cromwell Kelly Gilbert. Stephanie resides just outside of Philadelphia, PA and acts as the family's historian and archivist. The family's archives are extensive, as the Gilbert family history includes the unpublished memoirs of Oliver Gilbert, the founding of the AME Church (Reverend Clayton Durham - Stephanie's 4th great grandfather), the primary source archives of the Wilmington, NC massacre (Alexander Manly - relative), the founding of Jack and Jill of America (Mary Gilbert Manly and Helen Chase Gilbert - relatives), The Moors of Delaware (Durham ancestors), etc.

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