After having the illustrated Groups dialog with a colleague (which did proceed with me giving particulars), I believed I’d accomplish my dream of writing a
Category: Ancestors
ICYMI: The gift of family history
[Editor’s note: This blog post originally appeared in Vita Brevis on 24 November 2014.] Poppa and Brenda Lambert After I was a baby, I grew
“Miss Ida with a smile”
“That is battle, Peacock. Casualties are inevitable. You cannot make an omelet with out breaking eggs, each cook dinner will inform you that.” ~ Martin
“Miss Winters in the drawing room”
The drawing room in query. A number of months again, Chris Child and I began taking part in a recreation we’ve dubbed “Genealogical Clue.” Taking
Moved by religion
When I’ve given lectures and consultations on migrations into and out of New England, a frequent matter of dialogue regards the query of whether or
Flower power
The writer’s cousins in Potenza, Italy: standing (l-r), Angela Tolve, her daughter Rosa Mancinelli, and niece Antonella Tolve; seated, Angela’s husband Antonio Mancinelli. When you
The Donner party
Route taken by the Donner occasion. The bushes have been reduce on the top the snow reached in 1846-47. Rising up in a suburb outdoors
Marriage-go-round
Anna of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary. Courtesy of Wikipedia.org Generally – as Chris Child and Jeff Record know – one will get drawn again to
A slave in Vermont
New England Congregational church minute books from the nineteenth century abound in routine details: admissions, dismissals, committee experiences and the like that don’t make for
“Colonel Larned with the revolver”
Colonel Morris Larned and his spouse Elizabeth Eaton Properly, Jeff Record acquired again at me with one other Clue post, and properly moved away from
