You may have just gotten an email from me about me doing a test to see if a fix worked. I didn’t mean for it to go out to everyone but it did. The good thing is that the fix worked! Thanks for understanding about the unintended post and have a wonderful day. Nancy
Myrtle’s Special Desk
A recent theme for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks was ‘Hand Me Downs‘. Most of the hand-me-downs in my life were clothes. Most of the family heirlooms didn’t come to me until after my loved ones passed. But one piece of furniture that originally belonged to my paternal grandmother’s first cousin was handed down and not inherited. Myrtle and Goldie…
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Marriage Mystery: Why Did So Many Out-of-towners Get Married in Blaney, SC?
When I saw the prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks was Marriage, I knew I had the perfect topic to write about. As you can see in the chart below, 13 couples in my family tree had married in Blaney, South Carolina (now known as Elgin) even though none of them were from Blaney or Kershaw County, the location…
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Please Join My New, On-line, Life Story Writing Class
The tagline for my website is Keeping Grandma Alive….and all the others, too (including yourself). I include current generations in this because our life stories are family history in the making. I write down the stories that I know and have learned about my ancestors because I don’t want these precious people to become just names and dates on a…
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Brick Wall Joseph Cushing, Part 3
Last year I revisited one of brick walls, my 3rd GGF Joseph CUSHING (1790-1873). I also wrote a follow up to that ‘revisiting.’ Here are links to those blog posts Joseph Cushing, a Brick Wall Revisited Joseph Cushing, part 2 I have not given up on Joseph, and I found other sources to research. One such resource is a book,…
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A Family Story: How My Mom Became My Hero
My mom lived a full life despite suffering with a chronic illness for decades, but I did not understand her internal battle until it became my battle, too.
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