Years That Answer

I started my family tree looking for a 5th great-grandmother. She was the first wife of a man whose grandfather was a German iron worker. He...

I am a committed amateur genealogist, like many of you.  I maintain and research my various trees daily.  It's a huge pleasure and a way...

I haven't been checking my blog, or reading the blogs I follow for a couple weeks. Sorry! I'll catch up with you all soon. Instead I...

I recently learned two of my father's first cousins died. We weren't "close." However, we shared an interest in family his...

The majority of people seem to marry and produce children. When researching genealogy I wonder if their lives were meaningful or if they wer...

Our new (and first!) great-grandbaby was born a few days ago. All went well, and she is home now. She lives far from us, in the frozen north...

--This treasure is a letter from my Tennessee grandmother (1905-2000) to my daughter, written in February 1981, for the occasion of...

My paternal grandmother was born in 1905 on a farm in Pickett County, Tennessee. She came from a family with roots in Colonial Virg...

My maternal grandmother was Veronica , born in Chicago in 1892, and died in Lake Co., Indiana (IN) in 1950. Veronica had 13 childre...

Yesterday I considered staying in bed all day with the covers pulled over my head. Considering the mo od I was in, it probably would have be...

I meant to write a funny post.  Then I got sick last Friday just before the long 4th of July weekend.  While convalescing I read a lot o...