My mother-in-law, Sarah Greenberg, might easily be said to have lived a life of misfortunes, starting with her father’s desertion of the family when she was an infant and ending with her husband’s losing his federal job in the McCarthy …
Sarah Riddner Greenberg (1908-1969), Misfortune and Mystery – 52 Ancestors # 12 Read more »
I think all of us can say that luck is how we got to be here. Our ancestors chose to do something or go someplace, and survived so that they had descendants. I have written earlier the story of my …
I would venture to say that in most family trees many or most of the women are found to be strong in some way or another. Many of our earlier ancestors were, by definition, very strong women both emotionally and …
National Women’s History Month–Strong Women – 52 Ancestors #10 Read more »
My emigrant ancestors on my mother’s paternal side were William Denman and Ann Boorman (my 4-g grandparents). Both of these families named sons William with great regularity. Ann Boorman’s father was William Boorman and as it turns out his father …
Too Many Wills, Not Enough Wills – 52 Ancestors #9 Read more »
As my mother aged and started thinking about retiring and downsizing and all that, she began to make lists of the family items she and my father had been given over the years from their families. Some things had come …