In a conversation with my sister recently we briefly touched on the question of what ancestors had died from. She asked in particular about our Salt grandfather and great grandfather and I was able to give her the short answers …
I meant to write and post this weeks ago but am just finally sitting myself down to do it. I was set on the path of counting cousins with the reunion picture I posted last time of a Denman cousin …
It started about 2 weeks ago, with a text from my cousin Daryl in Texas. She had just found another stash of old pictures. They include one of our great grandfather from the late 1800s, a couple of a young …
I am trying my hand at face matching across pictures and present these two as an example. The first is a digitized image of the daguerreotype taken of the Ladies Graduates at Oberlin in 1853 which was the class Laura …
I remember Memorial Days from when I was in elementary school, in Lebanon Indiana. School had just gotten out for the summer and so it was a day of celebration as well as remembering. This was in the days before …