My Tituses were, apparently, Dutch immigrants in the early 18th century, long before the American Revolution. They settled in Rhode Island, then offshoots went up to Montgomery, New York, over to Pennsylvania and Scioto County, Ohio. In the 19th century, they traveled to Kansas and then Harrisburg, Illinois. My grandmother, Ada Titus, moved with her family to Detroit in the 1920s during the auto industry boom.
Some Titus Stories
My mtDNA over the past 250 years
Back in 2008, the genetic genealogist Blaine Bettinger wrote an interesting and educational post, “Where Was My Y-DNA in 1808?” Today, in the same spirit of curiosity and wonder, I created this map, tracing how my mitochondrial DNA–the very DNA in every cell of my body–was also in the cells…
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Rootedness 