Going to the Chapel – 52 Ancestors # 23
I am of the age that my first two responses for this topic were to think about ancestors getting married and then to hear the old song “Going to the Chapel” in my head – and the song has been …
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Close Up and Personal – 52 Ancestors # 18
This is my mother, Elizabeth Ann Denman Salt. This picture was taken in her senior year of college, so she wasn’t my mother yet. I am writing about her for the next topic, Mother’s Day, which I will post …
What If You Were Cremated and Your Ashes Scattered – 52 Ancestors # 17, Cemetery
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 …
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When Did Edward Salt Migrate from Virginia to Kentucky? Using Taxes to Find Him – 52 Ancestors # 15
In my quest to track Edward Salt, my first Salt ancestor in the U.S., I have been using a variety of records to find him. The family myth is that he came to Virginia, an Englishman having married an Irish …
The Old Home Place – 52 Ancestors # 13
Two very different places come to mind when I think about the term “the old homestead” or “the old home place”: the old Salt family homestead in southwest Ohio where my father was born and his family had lived for …