Keeping Grandma Alive...and all the others, too (including yourself)
Earlier this year I wrote about the challenge of searching for the Dickens Family Cemetery. If you didn’t read that post already, here’s the link so you can read it now. Then come back after reading it to hear the rest of the story. (Actually I can’t make the link work. I do not like this new WordPress. Sigh.) My…
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The prompt this week for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Family Photo. I picked a photo from a Martin family reunion held in June 1978 in Vienna, Virginia. My grandfather was J. Daniel MARTIN (1886-1955). He was married to my grandmother, Florrie THOMAS MARTIN (1894-1979). Much of their offspring were in attendance along with two of Daniel’s siblings and…
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Love is this week’s theme for 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks. I wrote about the courtship of my maternal grandparents, Joel Daniel Martin (1886-1955) and Florrie Thomas Martin (1894-1979). *please excuse some photo labels being far off from the photos of the letters. I’m still trying to figure out the changes to WordPress. Daniel and Florrie lived in the same…
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The prompt for this week is: Surprise! One of my early surprises in genealogy research involved my dad, Charles L. HEISER (1913-2001). Not long after I became interested in family history, my parents took me on a road trip to York County, Pennsylvania to do some research. This was in the dark ages when we had to actually go to…
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Unusual Name was a recent prompt for 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks. I wrote about the most unusual name in my family tree – Renatus – a while back. Today I’m writing about a few unusual middle names. My mom, Gladys, and her brother, Carlisle, both had unusual middle names. Carlisle Entzminger My uncle, Carlisle Entzminger MARTIN (1915-1977), was the…
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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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