One of my Stewart roadblocks that I have been chipping away at has been my 4th great-grandmother, Minerva Stewart’s maiden name. The Stewarts are their own roadblock, but not knowing who she was presented another, and I’m happy to say
The Scourge of Bad, Dirty Trees
I’m going to channel my inner Sophia Petrillo here for a moment. Picture this: you’re researching your family tree on one of the “big name” sites. You don’t know much about your family to begin with so you can’t really
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
Finding the Leist Girls
This week I discovered what happened to the Leist girls following the death of their mother in 1916.
A Small Stewart Mystery Solved
The Stewarts have been chock full of roadblocks in what feels like forever. They are the bane of my genealogy work. Recently, I was able to finally break through one of my Stewart family brick walls and discovered the ending to my 4th great aunt’s story.