I often felt my mother, Doris Lichtenthal Falcone, was prone to exaggeration. She told me her paternal grandfather, Sigmund Lichtenthal, listed Expert on his business card. He did – I found the card. She told me there was a buzzing noise in her walls. There was – the bees actually drilled through the drywall! So, […]
Read MoreThis week’s blog prompt for Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is “Challenge.” My theme this year is “Our Stuff.” As I explained last week, I have a lot of stuff. This week I’m giving you a little peek into the “abyss.” In the pictures below you see my genealogy/bedroom space. It actually looks […]
Read MoreShould I or shouldn’t I? I’m trying to decide if I want to commit to another year of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog challenge. This past year was a great success for me. I responded to 49 of the 52 prompts plus wrote additional posts as the spirit moved me. […]
Read MoreEvery year I say “My resolution is to not make any resolutions.” But then I can’t help myself. I did a pretty good job this past year on the blog. Counting this post I will have posted 49 out of 52 weeks. I also kept pretty close to my aim of writing about my generation […]
Read MoreAs I write this, many people, including one of my closest friends, are praying that 2018 hurries up and disappears. They need and deserve, 2019 to be better. I’m taking this opportunity to express my thanks that 2018 was really pretty nice to me. Sure, there were some trials in our family. For example, our […]
Read MoreThe blog prompt for Week # 26 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks was “Black Sheep.” I wrote about Scott’s great-grandmother, Catherine Seeley Fitzallen that week. She was most decidedly a “black ewe”, quite naughty and quite the character! As part of that post, I included the first chapter of the book I […]
Read MoreLast week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog prompt was “Winter.” Enjoy this TBT (Throwback Thursday) collection of some “winter gems.” Above is the backyard of my childhood home. Probably mid-1960s. You can’t even see the houses anymore due to tree growth! The photo below is one of my favorites! Little sister, Betsy is definitely enjoying […]
Read MoreIt seems appropriate, on this, the seventh anniversary of my mother’s passing, to share a bit about her. Doris May Lichtenthal was born on March 5, 1932. She left this earth after, in her words, “finishing her job,” on December 2, 2011. Mom was 79. For more than seven decades, she dedicated herself to family […]
Read MoreOn the occasion of our father’s funeral service, my sister Alexandra wrote, “This is the sixth family: the family joined now by our common loss as well as by our common love. From Jessica in his first family to Sandra in his fifth family, and including all of us kids in between — we are […]
Read MoreOnce again, I am skipping around the weekly prompts for Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blog challenge to respond to the Week 42 topic – Conflict. It’s not exactly typical genealogy, but consistent with my goal of documenting my generation’s story. I was searching for a way to connect to this topic when […]
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Who We Are and How We Got This Way 