Our friend Ann and I spent the day recently trying out a technique she had discovered that allows you to use your digital camera to copy things that are not scannable for some reason. Ann is my more-or-less local photography …
My Denman family line first migrated from Ditchling, Sussex, England to New York state up the Hudson River around Kingston and Rondout Creek in about 1795. They settled in the Neversink area in Sullivan County. It was from there that …
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I’ve been sorting through yet another pile of mixed pictures, snapshots, ephemera, a letter or two (recent), etc. Somehow this pile landed on my desk. It may be an orphan-pile, left over from the boxes I was going through earlier …
To set the stage as I start this fourth in the Wakeman series (also described in the first one): this is a description of life in the early 1900s in a small north-central Ohio village. My mother interviewed and taped …
In a variation on the theme, this post is about three sisters who came to America and went in different directions. There actually were more than 3 Yellin sisters and there was a brother too. And some of them did …