One pleasant day in mid-October my daughter and I went to visit my mother in her room at the Jewish Home for the Aged in New Haven. We had both been there many times before, but only occasionally together. As …
A Genealogist and Her Daughter Walk into a Nursing Home… Read more »
From the time I was very young, my mother would tell me that I looked like Cousin Alice when I pouted and talk about how Daisy (her nickname) would pout to get her own way. And then she would stick …
I’ve recently had several experiences that remind me how useful it can be to use your email to ask discrete questions about a family line you’re following. Phone calls work the same way – but calling England doesn’t occur to …
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This quintessential New England church is the First Congregational Church in Becket Massachusetts. I think that it was built around 1850 as a replacement for the older church that had originally served this village. There is a small plaque on …
The middle of the fourth week in June, after school let out, my sister and I headed to the northeastern corner of Connecticut on a short vacation and genealogy trip. I am the genealogist in our family, but my sister …