Unlocking Your Family History
Giveaways Count Down Giveaways are so much fun on both ends, those receiving and those giving things away. I’m so happy to have this opportunity to do something like this. Starting December 1st through the 12th at 6:30 pm EST
Family Heirloom Exchange Antiques As most of us know, thousands of identified family antiques and artifacts exist in the hands of antique dealers and collectors around the world. How sad to hold an identified 1880’s cabinet card photo offered at
Giveaway This giveaway has been in the works for some time now. Over the years I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to meet many likeminded individuals who share the same passion for genealogy and family research. I feel lucky enough to
Community Members When it comes to a community there are many sizes and ages within our communities. The Maple Hurst Camp isn’t any different as you can see in the past photos and these below. I wish there were names
Chief of the Camp With only one photograph having information we can tell Chief was someone of possible importance. The notation on the side of Chief’s photograph shows they were in the camp November of 1917. If you’ve been following
Haplogroup Okay some of us have had our DNA tested in hoping to find out more about our ancestors. There seems to be one word that keeps turning up with a big question mark, haplogroup. So, here’s the official dictionary
Who was Essie Mae Stewart? Well now the time has come to introduce you to Essie Mae Stewart, my great grandmother on my maternal side. She was born on the 2nd of November in 1880 in Daviess County, Indiana. Her
Women and Children In the past two Wednesday post I’ve shared some of the hunting and snowy weather. Today I wanted you to see another side of those who were in the camp, women and children. When we look at
File Cabinets Line the Wall Corbit-Calloway Memorial Library File cabinets you say, what could be in those? Well lucky for you I’ve spent some time going through those cabinets and their files. Not all of them because that will
Meet Edward Clinton Edward was also known as Eddie or Ed Clinton. He was born the 17th of February 1878 in Steele, Daviess County, Indiana. His parents were Samuel Clinton and Arnetta Chestnut. Both of his parents were also born