Veterans Day, 2019
I remember it being called Armistice Day when I was young, and the holiday was always celebrated on November 11, the day the Armistice ending World War I was signed and went into effect. I had two grandfathers eligible for …
Author: Pat
John Clifford Salt (1857-1926)
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 …
How Many Cousins Do You Have?
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 …
Another Denman Treasure Trove
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 …
Laura Denman Booth – Two Pictures?
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 …