52 Ancestors – Week #11 – "Lucky" (My Story)

March 16, 2018.Reading time 40 minutes.

This week’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks topic is “Lucky” – in honor of St. Patrick’s Day. I was planning on writing about how lucky I have been “employment-wise.” But then I discovered March 14 was National “Write Your Story” Day. I remembered writing a lengthy autobiography as part of the Genealogy Do-Over I started in 2015. […]

52 Ancestors – #10 – Miniatures, My Mom and Me – Doris Lichtenthal Falcone

March 2, 2014.Reading time 18 minutes.

This is post is a departure from my usual family history posts. March 5, 2014 would have been my mother’s 82nd birthday. Mom’s legacy lives on in many ways in our family; her cooking, her humor (well….WE think it’s funny), her incessant picture-taking (very much appreciated by this genealogist daughter!) But there was one special […]