About a Mariage Part II
I’ve had a hard time getting around to posting Part II of William and Rosa’s story. It turns out that putting myself in their place and trying to tell their story without veering in to fiction is harder than I …
Category: Miscellaneous
Book Review: David Laskin’s The Family
The Family. Three Journeys into the Heart of the Twentieth Century. By David Laskin. Published by Viking Adult. 2013. 400 pages. This is the story of three branches of one Russian Jewish family, the author’s maternal grandfather’s family. Although we …
February Genealogy To-Do List
Research * Earhart project: I received the Civil War pension file for Margaret Earhart applying based on her son Tilford’s death. This record was pulled and scanned for me by Pamela Loos-Noji at Kinwork Connections. I found her by using …
How Do You Deal with Adoption in Your Family Tree?
I’ve been thinking about my Earhart/Hockman question and trying to figure out what difference it makes anyway. Why do I care whether Mary Elizabeth was a Hockman or an Earhart child? I know, from my sister-in-law as well as my …
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January Genealogy To-Do List
Happy New Year! Research * Earhart project: I received the death certificate and an obituary for William Samuel Earhart from the Wyoming State Archives. The death certificate lists John Earhart as his father, mother unknown, and birthplace as Bethel, Ohio. …