Well – this was a busy day, and it isn’t over yet! Tonight we are going to the RootsTech After Party sponsored by My Heritage. I figure if I blog now, I can enjoy the party later! We slept in a little later today as the next two days will early risings. We headed back to […]
Read MoreSo Day Two is in the books – or it will be after I write this blog. I thought I was tired yesterday. I was – but not as tired as I am today! Diane Hirsch (right) We decided to forgo this morning’s speaker, Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York, as we can watch later on […]
Read MoreJust a quick post about today as I’m am BEAT!!!! Yesterday was travel day. Naturally, I couldn’t just have an uneventful trip. The VERY FIRST thing I did was severely twist my knee before I even sat down on our first flight!! Ouch!! I limped my way through Baltimore and into Salt Lake City, Utah. By the time […]
Read MoreIf you follow my blog (or know me at all!) you are aware that I am THE KEEPER OF THE FAMILY TREASURES! As I mentioned in my post about family heirlooms, this is an awesome responsibility that I don’t take lightly. As part of my Genealogy Do-Over in 2015 (sponsored by Thomas MacEntee of High Definition Genealogy), I created an inventory […]
Read MoreMy mom used to say she wasn’t hoarding stuff, she was “holding it” for us. She referred to herself as the manager of the family “museum.” Since her passing, I have inherited that role. I’ve tried to be diligent about tracking who has what and where our treasured items are. A situation this past week […]
Read MoreJust a short post – been a very busy week!! Valentine’s Day is not one of my favorite holidays. I feel it’s best suited for “young” love and kids!! So – I struggled with what to post for this week’s 52 Ancestor challenge. I decided to share the first Valentine’s Day cards I ever got – […]
Read MoreI 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 […]
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Who We Are and How We Got This Way 