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 …
Although the theme for this week was Maiden Aunt, Cousin Jessie came to mind. She was my closest relative who never married, and she was of an age to be a great aunt or grandmother. We called her Cousin Jessie …
Jessie Louise Schenk (1897-1995) – 52 Ancestors # 14 Read more »
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 …
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 think all of us can say that luck is how we got to be here. Our ancestors chose to do something or go someplace, and survived so that they had descendants. I have written earlier the story of my …
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