Joan On The Road comes home
I've always been fascinated with bridges and have many pictures of famous and spectacular ones that we crossed in our travels. So when BRIDGE came up as the Generations challenge word my mind's eye immediately went to a few bridges associated with memorable times in my life. Mackinac Bridge, MI In 1963 we had two… Continue reading Bridge
This last weekend in May brings Memorial Day in honor of all those who served in the Military to defend our freedom and our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In my research of ancestors I've found many draft registration cards and listings of military assignments. I have found relatives who served… Continue reading Military
Week 21 of the Generations Cafe challenge is At The Cemetery. I've never been a regular visitor to cemeteries or gravesites of family members. I imagine it stems from the death of my Dad when I was 15. His death, funeral and burial in a local cemetery were devastating. As we left the cemetery a… Continue reading At The Cemetary
When I read up on this challenge from Generations Cafe, Cousin Bait, I realized that I'd recently done this...throw something out on the family tree and see how many cousins you can catch. In the past I have mostly pursued info on the direct line of parents to grandparents to great grandparents and on. I… Continue reading Cousin Bait
This picture has always fascinated me. I wonder if it was Mother's Day in Iowa and someone collected these ladies for a formal picture. Three generations: Clockwise from lower middle Amanda Caroline Mullins Lovell, Myrtle May Lovell Lane and Iva May Lane Quist Amanda Caroline Mullins Lovell, my 2nd Great Grandma, was born in Terre Haute, IN in… Continue reading Mother’s Day – Three Grandmas
Today I got hooked on researching my great Grandfather James Gardner McDearmid who fought for the Union in the Civil War. He was born in 1839 in Woodstock NH ...Live Free or Die...so of course he was on the Union side. He lived in New Hampshire and Massachusetts for most of his life but somewhere… Continue reading Great Grandpa McDearmid
The Generations Cafe challenge for this week is CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. I thought long and hard on this one and was hard pressed to find a criminal in the family tree. From my personal knowledge and from my research on census records including locations and occupations I did not find any prison records. I do… Continue reading Crime & Punishment
As I thought about this week's challenge from Generations Cafe my mind wandered to the many beautiful sights I've seen in my 82 years. I've traveled in 47 states and a handful of foreign countries. I've seen the Grand Canyon, the Eiffel Tower, Stonehenge, Lake Louise, the North Woods of Wisconsin and the Sonoran Desert,… Continue reading Favorite Place
This week the Generations Cafe 52 week challenge was BRICK WALL. Well I have so many brick walls in my ancestry search that I didn't know what to write about. Then Serendipity happened. I received a message on Ancestry from a distant cousin, Douglas, on my Dad's side wondering how I was related to his… Continue reading Brick Wall
The Generations Cafe challenge for the week was GREAT and my mind kept going back to Grandma Great aka Amelia Phelps, my paternal Great Grandmother because she was the original owner of the Grandma Great table. I figure she bought the table around 1885 in Highwood, Illinois when she married Mr. Henricks. That makes the… Continue reading Great
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