This week’s prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is: Earliest. I decided to look at the earliest newspaper clippings for each of my surname lines. One caught my eye. In 1868, my third great grandfather, Jeremiah Grant (1815-1892) was elected Probate Judge in Marlboro County, South Carolina. According to the article in the Charleston […]
Nancy H. Vest, Writer
Keeping Grandma Alive...and all the others, too (including yourself)
Dear Diary: a quiet autumn morning
The prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Dear Diary. For those that don’t have actually diary entries from an ancestor, it was suggested to write a diary entry that could have been written by an ancestor. So that’s what I did. This diary entry could have been made by my grandmother, Florrie THOMAS […]
1 of 13,000: a short D-Day recollection
Dad didn’t talk much about the war, but he did say a few things including some memories of D-Day.
