Mx Stories

These Mx stories are captured from the pages of the print edition of MxWorld and shared again as a featured item on our website. Timeless recollections of Mx family history from around the globe.

Horsman Mx and Jack the Slave
By US294 George Mollineaux

In the May 2009 issue of MxWorld (Volume XXII, No. 4) two stories appeared about members of the Mx family and their position on slavery Discover what else is in this issue. We have found additional information about how they dealt with one slave that they owned and the legal path they took to free him.

With the help of the Westchester County Archives in Elmsford, New York we were able to find copies of two documents that freed “Jack the Slave” in 1701, 126 years before abolition in the State of New York and 164 years before the 13th amendment to the U. S. Constitution. Read more ...

In Search of Great Uncle William
By UK118 Jim Molyneux and cousin Alan Molyneux

This article was first featured in Mx-World Volume 19 Number 2, November 2004. Discover what else is in this issue.

When UK118 Jim Molyneux was researching his Molyneux family and looking through family documents and photographs in what had been his grandmother's collection, he was puzzled as to who the person might be dressed in naval uniform in 2 of the 3 photos he found of the same person. Why had grandmother Ann (Foster) Molyneux kept them with other family photographs if he had not been a member of the family or another relative? Read more ...

Partnering Genealogists With Historians

US332 Wayne Straight and US033 Marilyn Mx Blanck, aided by Rebecca Snyder, Research Librarian and Associate Director at the Dakota County Historical Society (DCHS) in South St. Paul, Minnesota (www.dakotahistory.org) researched an erroneous 1891 newspaper article alleging Eli Mx was a murderer. See MxWorld, August 2010, Volume 25, Issue No. 1, pp. 9-13.

Rebecca wanted their story for the DCHS's publication Over the Years, where the tale has been reproduced virtually verbatim in the October 2010 issue (Volume 51 No. 3, pp. 17-21).

A great example of good research and good teamwork partnering genealogists and historians!