I have two projects right now. Well, I have a lot more than 2, but these are on the top of the literal paper stack. The first are my son’s applications to high school. It’s a huge undertaking; one I frankly wasn’t prepared for. We live in a large city, one with many, many options …
Grandma, Thanks for the Memories – Granddad, Thanks for Hoarding Them Read More »
My husband’s paternal grandmother was a Carriveau by birth. They were a family who seemed to live under a shadow of misfortune. The patriarch of the family was Laurent Corriveau, who came from Quebec to Michigan in the late 1800s after his young wife died (probably in childbirth). He and his second wife Eugenie, who …
My father- and mother-in-law met in an unusual way—through letters. Their story began in 1944… War had been declared, and Norman Mosey, a farm boy from Michigan, was newly drafted into the U.S. Navy. A reporter for Michigan Farmer magazine did a story about ‘our boys in the service” and when he asked Norman, “What …
I’m tickled pink that I’ve had comments about document wrongnesses in other people’s families – Norah’s gt-gran Jane who was really ‘Mercy’; her ancestor Cornelius who apparently died at 115; MJ’s gt-gran who varied her forename AND her surname …(quite…); and Melvin, you are SO RIGHT to say “do not accept anything…without verifying the facts”. …
As mentioned in my last post, I took on this One-Name Study to extend my knowledge of my name and, in the process, learn more about its origin and then share that back with the world. A further real benefit has been to extend the joys of problem solving to reconstructing family histories for other people’s …
Susan Mosey of Ancestry Binders was kind enough to share these wise words from her father for Wisdom Wednesday. “My late father, Robert M. Wallin, wrote this out for me on a scrap of paper many years ago, and I’ve treasured it ever since (and tried to live by it).” Do you have any special bits …
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Welcome to the world, Family History Daily. Nice to have a genealogy website where one can read about other people’s struggles and triumphs, and tap into the knowledge they want to share, rather than just asking for help with queries. Best wishes for a successful future. To begin at the beginning [spot the quote]: NEVER TRUST …
I’d accepted a job in the Netherlands to manage an acquisition for my firm but my kids were at an age when we wanted a settled home life for them. So I commuted monthly across the Atlantic for four years. While I was away, my younger son, David, was accepted into his school’s “gifted and …
Thank you Family History Daily for the opportunity to spread the “genealogy fever” that infects the beginning, as well as the more advanced, genealogy writer. I believe that every family has its sentinel whom records oft forgotten legends thus translating those family members recorded in words to posterity, creating immortality. My epiphany happened on a …
Homesley and Holmes: A Story of Surname Discovery Read More »