Research * Continue to look for live relatives in the Scheier line. [No success in October. However, I did have a cause for a genealogy happy dance: I got registrations/certificates of marriage for two Scheier men, confirming that they were …
Zebulon B. Coffin was one of the first ancestors I learned about, going back to when I was about age 8 or 9. His picture was in the old-fashioned hard-covered thick-paged photo album that my mother kept in the linen …
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month again and pink ribbons are popping up everywhere. I hate Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Don’t get me wrong, I think raising money to fight this awful disease and to help those who struggle with it …
I couldn’t resist this title. The remaining surname of my great grandparents that I haven’t yet posted about is Sweet. Imagine: I have Sweet and Salt and Snow and Minor and Coffin as last names, along with Boothby, Earhart, and …
This week would have been my mother’s 101st birthday. She died in January, 2010 at the age of 99. My mother-in-law died six weeks later at the age …