I know – I’ve been gone. I haven’t written, I haven’t really researched, I haven’t really, well, done anything of note as of late and while I occasionally feel a pang of guilt for that, I have come to realize
My Loafer Follow-Up
I was happily informed the other day by my dear friend Sue that one of my blog articles was used as a citation in a recent Crossroads article. The article was Reconstructing a Life from Biographical Fragments: Oliver Dresser, Who
Heavy Heart
Being a genealogist, growing up in a funeral home, transporting ashes and urns, and being a memorial planner at West Point – you think I’d be well equipped to handle every aspect of death. You need me to support you
Finding the Leist Girls
This week I discovered what happened to the Leist girls following the death of their mother in 1916.
A Pension Full of Surprises
She couldn’t have fathomed that one hundred fifteen years later, her second great-granddaughter would be on the verge of tears and in utter awe of the connection to something as simple as her signature.