August Genealogy To-Do List
Research * I’m getting ready to do a short road trip to Maine with my ever-patient sister. My goal is to begin on-the-ground research on our Boothby family line. I want to know why our family line left Maine and …
Do You Know These People? Mystery Photographs
Among the various things I have “inherited” from my Aunt Susan, was a frame with two pictures side-by-side. The frame was the kind that stands on a piece of furniture and I imagined my Aunt Susan keeping this on her …
July Genealogy To-Do List
Research * Request information about possible records from St. Xavier in Cincinnati about the O’Shaughnessys. I had a nice comment from a person who volunteers elsewhere, suggesting a call to ask about the possibility of research volunteers. Have to do …
A Pioneer Story: The End of Laura’s Childhood
The first teaching job Laura was offered was in Homer, Licking county, Ohio. The typed transcript I have of Laura’s memoir says it was Horner, but that was undoubtedly a misreading of her handwriting. The very small community (an unincorporated …
A Pioneer Story: Laura’s Childhood-Part 4
Having been freed from taking care of her sister and young nephew, Laura was ready for other employment. She was fairly quickly able to find a job teaching, first the summer term at a school district in one near-by place …