Ancestors I Wish I Knew/52 Ancestors

Native New Yorker … Relocated to the Midwest ..College professor…volunteer at Greenfield Village …traveler…researcher…dog lover…reader…c...

Challenges are all around us.    Rather than blog about an ancestor who faced a challenge, I decided to write about a genealogy challeng...

When I was about five years old, my mother bought a center piece for our Christmas table.  It was a Santa in a sleigh with a music box ...

I do not think of my ancestors as being particularly talented in terms of crafts.  However, when I look around my house, I see sever...

This week’s theme is thief and I found one in my family.     One day while looking at the cases in the Old Baily in London I di...

I think of the he  War of 1812  (1812-1815) as a kind of forgotten war.  It is sandwiched between the Revolution War and the Civil War an...

This week’s theme is poor.  Poor in money? Poor in land?  Poor in children?  How about poor in information?  That would fit my great gr...