Chasing Hazel's Tales - A Family History Podcast · Kimberly McLaughlin & Laura Ireland - Music by Andrew Mclaughlin

Episode 30

·28 min·2 clips

Kim shares the sobering census record showing their six-times-great-grandfather, Jacob Van Wart, owned an enslaved person.

Sisters and family historians Kim and Laura share discoveries from researching their Dutch ancestry in Sleepy Hollow, New York. They discuss connections to the Van Tassel family of Washington Irving's legend, the sobering find of slave ownership in their lineage, and a potential link to a 17th-century Montauk tribe Sachem.

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A family-history ramble that pairs local detail with uncomfortable discoveries and sisterly back-and-forth.

Chasing Hazel's Tales uses a planned Sleepy Hollow trip as a way into family history, with endogamy, slaveholding, and research details set against easy sisterly banter.

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Press play if you want Sleepy Hollow, family history, and a sobering truth or two.

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