Apology
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 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 …
More Civil War stories
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 …
The Davies Mansion–the genealogy of a house
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 …
Our Ancestor Approved Award
And thanks to TennLady over at Gene Notes. Since this blog is a joint effort, I am assuming that TennLady’s award was to the site and therefore to both of us. I found, on Family Curator‘s site, the origins of …