AnceStories: The Stories of My Ancestors

This is the first of a series about Lynn Walker Westaby, my children's paternal great-grandmother's uncle. When their great-grandmot...

Back in October , I wrote about how my children's paternal ancestor reportedly blew up the local schoolhouse and that his younger sons t...

In my children's father's family, there had long been a story about how my former mother-in-law's maternal grandfather had blown...

Miriam and Pixie on the front steps at our home on Bayview Boulevard, Klawock, Alaska, 1971. My dad taught me how to tie my shoes when I was...

View of the Camp of Col Laight's Regiment of Militia from the New York Public Library's Digital Collection Back in January 2017, I m...

Death Certificate of June Wrone 1 While I have hardly been blogging at all the past few years, I have not stopped doing genealogical researc...

I've been busy cleaning up items in the Downloads folder of my laptop.  In many cases, I downloaded an image of a record from a genealog...

Today I started a new blog . Yes, I can hear what you're thinking!  "She hasn't kept up with her original one, and she's st...

Seventy-five years ago today, the first anti-discrimination law was signed on American soil. It was more than two decades before the Civil...

Monday, May 6, 2019:  Our third day of our trip and second full day in Michigan.  And what a day it was! We checked out of our hotel in Gr...