POWER!
For those of you who expected a new post from Judy last Monday, thanks for looking. There was no post because we lost power in the “freak” October snow storm and regained it last night. First the blizzard, then the …
November Genealogy To-Do List
Research * Continue to look for live relatives in the Scheier line. [No success in October. However, I did have a cause for a genealogy happy dance: I got registrations/certificates of marriage for two Scheier men, confirming that they were …
Great-great-grandfather Zebulon Butler Coffin
Zebulon B. Coffin was one of the first ancestors I learned about, going back to when I was about age 8 or 9. His picture was in the old-fashioned hard-covered thick-paged photo album that my mother kept in the linen …
Breast Cancer Survivor
It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month again and pink ribbons are popping up everywhere. I hate Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Don’t get me wrong, I think raising money to fight this awful disease and to help those who struggle with it …
How Sweet It Is!
I couldn’t resist this title. The remaining surname of my great grandparents that I haven’t yet posted about is Sweet. Imagine: I have Sweet and Salt and Snow and Minor and Coffin as last names, along with Boothby, Earhart, and …