Tuesday Treasure – Quilts with Memories
These are just six of the quilts that I have that were made by my great grandmother, some over one hundred years old. I received these quilts after the passing of my grandfather and there
Ancestral Telephone Game
Have you ever played the telephone game where one person in a group whispers a message to another person? Everyone continues to whisper the same message throughout the group until the last person repeats the message out loud
Sunday’s Cemetery – Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris
Published in June of 1895 in the Plain Dealer out of Cleveland, OH ALL IS SILENCE. A Description of the Great Cemeteries of Paris. Customs Which Appear Strange After Ten Years the Graves Are Re-Dug Unless a “Concession a Perpetuiti”
Saturday Spotting – Ice Box Saloon
Published in May 1908 in the Grand Forks Daily Herald out of Grand Forks, ND CHICAGO HAS THE SMALLEST SALOON Smallest Saloon In World Is Abandoned Ice Box and Is Doing a Rushing Business. Chicago, May 5 – “Hey,” said
Saturday Spotting – Ice Box Saloon
Published in May 1908 in the Grand Forks Daily Herald out of Grand Forks, ND CHICAGO HAS THE SMALLEST SALOON Smallest Saloon In World Is Abandoned Ice Box and Is Doing a Rushing Business. Chicago, May 5 – “Hey,” said
Genealogist vs Family Historians
Isn’t a family historian the same as a genealogist, with the biggest difference being that a family historian’s focus is with their own families’ ancestry line? While a genealogist focus of research is spread a little wider, not
Livescribe meets Evernote
I know last week on Thursday I told you about one of the tools I use but this one is a must. The more I use it the more I fall in love with all that
Wordless Wednesday
Tuesday Treasure – My Wooden Treasure
Posted back in 2013…My wooden treasure chest, so to speak. That would have to be the desk that I set at day in and day out blogging and doing all of my research. The desk that I comfortably set at
Sunday’s Cemetery – Who Mourns for the Prisoners
Published in March of 1913 in the Trenton Evening Times out of Trenton, NJ PRISON CEMETERY DISMAL PLACE WITH NONE TO MOURN FOR DEAD Graveyards as a rule are known to be dismal places with a sort of a