I really wasn’t too keen on this week’s topic for the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge: Favorite Name. I have previously written about the importance of the WINCHESTER middle name in my husband’s family. I am not comfortable posting information about living relatives that might encourage ID theft. Therefore, I won’t write about why my sister […]
Read MoreThe most recent U.S. Census (1940) was released in 2012. Due to privacy concerns, censuses are not released to the public until after 72 years have passed. (Other countries wait 100 years.) So, it was with great excitement that I sat down to glean facts about my grandparents from the newly released images. I don’t know […]
Read MoreToday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The lives of my mother and her family were changed forever one day in March 1938. On that day, the Nazis appropriated my great-grandfather’s business. As he (Sigmund Lichtenthal) explained in a letter written years later, “The firm, Lital, came to a natural end when Austria was occupied by […]
Read MoreThe topic for this week’s 52 Ancestor’s in 52 Weeks is “Invite to Dinner.” This year, I am trying to focus on the stories of my generation. Honestly, I don’t remember too much about dinners before my brother, Dean was born in 1964. I suspect that is because things got way more interesting when my […]
Read MoreI spend a good deal of time making sure the stories of our ancestors don’t get forgotten.It is sometimes easy to forget that my stories are important also. For that reason, I have decided to focus on my generation for this year’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. This is the (long) story of my […]
Read MoreMy first thought was, “This will be easy! There are so many pictures I can choose from.” The 1930s picture depicting 4 generations of my father’s family. The 1960s Christmas photograph of me and my sibs in which one sister is ironing and my brother is picking his nose. The 1970s photo of me and […]
Read MoreAs I type this, I am enjoying 80 degree weather in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. Scott and I have been here almost a week, having come down to spend some post-Christmas time with our daughter, Caitlin, her two boys, her husband and his family. Tuesday, it’s back to Connecticut where the temperature has been hovering […]
Read MoreI entered a contest to win a 4-day pass to RootsTech 2018 on the Family History Fanatics website. I learned about the site when I took a webinar on Power Scrapbooking with Devon Noel Lee a few weeks back. If you have any interest at all in digital scrapbooking, I encourage you to check out […]
Read MoreI did it!! I made a commitment to post every day for Family History Month and actually achieved it! As my final post this month, I want to share my Master Toolbox with you. Click on the link to open and view. Several years ago I participated in Thomas MacEntee’s Genealogy Do-Over. One of the tasks was to create […]
Read MoreI was planning to report on the DNA Webinar I watched today, but the organizer postponed it until November 5. Click on the link if you’re interested in registering. Instead, I will share some points I learned from one of the webinars I viewed during today’s My Heritage One-Day Genealogy Seminar. Actually, it was the perfect […]
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Who We Are and How We Got This Way 