I don’t intend this as advertisement, but I suppose that’s what it is… not so much for the book or the nonprofit project I’m about to describe, but for the idea the project encourages. Ali heard a podcast today, thought of me and my interest in genealogy, and sent me a link to Katherine Lanpher’s [...]
Archive for May, 2009
StoryCorps
Posted in Genealogy, Uncategorized on 20 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Civil War Letters from Danville Prison
Posted in Civil War Letters, Family, Genealogy, tagged Civil War, Genealogy, Needham Family on 14 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Although my own 2nd Great-Grandfather was wounded in battle during the Civil War and suffered terribly from those wounds for the remainder of his life, he did survive the war and return to his family. Another family member, whose story follows, was not so fortunate. Sergeant Lyman H. Needham (a son of my children’s 5th [...]
Civil War Letters
Posted in Civil War Letters, Family, Genealogy, tagged Civil War, Genealogy, Richards Family on 12 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
LETTERS written by or to my 2nd Great-Grandfather, Richard E. Richards, who was born 2 Feb 1833 near Redditch, England in Sambourne, Coughton Parish, Diocese of Worcester, County of Warwick. He immigrated on the ship “Yorktown” to New York with the Charles Walford family on 28 May 1849; married his sweetheart, Sarah Walford, on 26 [...]
You’re My Mother, I’d Have No Other
Posted in Everyday Life, Family, Genealogy, tagged Mother's Day on 09 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Happy Mother’s Day to ALL my FAVORITE Moms, Grandmoms, and Aunts!
To My Sweetheart
Posted in Family, Genealogy, tagged Genealogy, Prentis Family, Tennant Family on 08 May 2009 | 3 Comments »
A letter written by Granddad X. T. to Nana on her sixty-seventh birthday: Jan. 22, 1966 To My Sweetheart — I do not want to appear nostalgic, but I have many memories of our lives together. School days — summer nights. The first time I kissed you. Separations — Reunions, misunderstandings, understandings. Moments of ecstasy [...]
Buried Treasure
Posted in Family, Genealogy, tagged Genealogy, Scott Family, Tennant Family on 07 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I found these quite accidentally on Ancestry.com while researching my Scott and Tennant lines today. What a thrill I felt when I realized for sure they were my 3rd-Great Grandparents!
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