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 »
Having figured out how to get my RootsMagic program to generate lists of different things, I now know what life events (birth, marriage, death) occurred in my families on Valentine’s Day (February 14). Even before running this list I remembered …
A Family Event on February 14, Valentine’s Day – 52 Ancestors # 7 Read more »
When I thought about our visit to Texas as a genealogy trip, there were several things I wanted to learn. Although my cousins and their parents, and my grandparents for the last parts of their lives, had lived in Texas …
In the last couple of years or so I (and some of my siblings) have started re-connecting with my only first cousins, on Facebook. We had all been completely out of touch for many (many!) years, only occasionally hearing via …
Visiting Our Denman Cousins for the First Time in Forever Read more »