Keeping Grandma Alive...and all the others, too (including yourself)
The prompt this week for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is: Challenge. Here’s my challenge story. Are you familiar with Find A Grave.com? I have taken gravestone photos to fulfill photo requests on Find A Grave. Some of the requests for my area intrigued me because the cemeteries appear to be ‘lost’. Directions were sketchy at best or non-existent at…
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I’ve hit several brick walls in my family research. Today I wrote about the first one: my 2nd great grandparents.
A recent prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks was: Winter. When I think of a winter, I think of snow. And when I think of snow I think of my dad, Charlie Heiser (1913-2001). My dad loved snow. When it snowed Dad would take my sister, Joyce, with him to go ride around in the snow. She recalls…
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The prompt this week is Next to Last Jeremiah M. THOMAS (1852-1930) was the next to the last child of my 3rd great-grandfather, Renatus THOMAS (1799-1874). Jerry, as he was called, was born and raised on his daddy’s farm in Richland County, South Carolina. In 1870, when he was about 19, Jerry was a farm laborer on the family farm….
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The prompt for this week is Thankful, to write about what or who are I thankful for finding in my genealogy research. When I was teenager and my mom, Gladys MARTIN HEISER (1921-1999) would talk about serious things like boys, I would always say, “Oh, Mom. Things are different than when you were a girl.” My mom would respond with…
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The prompt this week for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Random Fact. I was excited about this prompt as I know a random fact about my paternal grandfather, Daniel W. HEISER (1882-1974). But when I re-examined the document, I was in for a surprise. I found Dan HEISER’s WW2 draft registration several years ago. That’s where the random fact…
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