Like many (?most I would guess) genealogists, I love walking through cemeteries especially ones where family are buried, but even ones where I don’t have ancestors.  I have blogged about various cemetery visits over the years, with the most recent …

What If You Were Cremated and Your Ashes Scattered – 52 Ancestors # 17, Cemetery Read more »

My mother-in-law, Sarah Greenberg, might easily be said to have lived a life of misfortunes, starting with her father’s desertion of the family when she was an infant and ending with her husband’s losing his federal job in the McCarthy …

Sarah Riddner Greenberg (1908-1969), Misfortune and Mystery – 52 Ancestors # 12 Read more »

I would venture to say that in most family trees many or most of the women are found to be strong in some way or another.  Many of our earlier ancestors were, by definition, very strong women both emotionally and …

National Women’s History Month–Strong Women – 52 Ancestors #10 Read more »