Actually, it was two brothers and a sister. And they didn’t come together but at three different times to two different places. From about 1899 to 1905. And there was a friend who became a brother-in-law. They, like many immigrants …
If you were kind enough to read my post “They Said It Would Never Last” in the last 48 hours you probably noticed that it seemed to start in the middle. That’s because it did. I somehow managed to leave …
They said it would never last. They really did say that forty years ago when Norman and I were married and they had good reason. We are very different people, different interests, different religions, and raised in very different circumstances …
Wounded on Morris Island, South Carolina, 1863 For this story, I decided to first present the story that Grandpa Lyle remembered being told as a young boy and then to copy what Grandpa Minor had said in his diary. The …
This is the beginning of a long story. It involves the history of a house, several families, a culinary school and a university and it has become the obsession of this genealogist. This story has it all, a family flush …