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Children’s Home Society

Her First Trip to a Cemetery

I had to go home to Ohio this past week to see my father who is dying from Stage 4 cancer – that is a post for another day.  We stayed in Zanesville near my daughter’s house so when my

Jill M. October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 cemetery, Children's Home Society, family history, genealogy, Stewart, Stewart family Read more

Finding the Leist Girls

This week I discovered what happened to the Leist girls following the death of their mother in 1916.

Jill M. November 9, 2019November 9, 2019 census, Children's Home Society, Drake, Drake family, family history, genealogy, mysteries, newspaper clippings, old records, Pickaway County, research, Uncategorized Read more

Dale Stewart’s 1930 Arrest

I don’t know what makes me return to certain relatives time and again even when I think their stories are “done.”  My 2nd great uncle Dale Stewart’s story was pretty cut and dry, I thought. I’ve written about discovering his

Jill M. December 20, 2018December 20, 2018 Children's Home Society, family history, genealogy, newspaper clippings, old records, pictures, police records, research, secrets, Stewart, Stewart family, Uncategorized Read more

Clark Children Reunite After 42 Years

A while ago, I wrote about my husband’s great-grandfather’s story about being sold at the Ohio State Fair and how he changed his name from Clark to Moore.  A Clark relative reached out to us recently on Ancestry to find

Jill M. July 10, 2018July 11, 2018 Children's Home Society, Clark family, family history, genealogy, holiday, Moore family, mysteries, newspaper clippings, old records, research, secrets, Uncategorized Read more

Boys! Boys! Boys!

Awhile ago I wrote about the story in my husband’s family about their one great grandfather being “sold” at the Ohio State Fair to a farmer down near the southern Ohio border.  Turns out, that this very thing, however unbelievable and far

Jill M. January 2, 2016October 6, 2017 Children's Home Society, Moore family, mysteries, newspaper clippings, secrets, Uncategorized Read more

Recent Posts

  • 1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 32
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  • 1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 30
  • 1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 28 & 29
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Recent Posts

  • 1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 32
  • 1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 31
  • 1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 30
  • 1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 28 & 29
  • 1978 Diary of Rose Jones – Week 27

I am taking a break from teaching genealogy for now. If that changes, I will post here in upcoming events.

However, you may catch me giving a historic tour at the Washingtonville Cemetery occasionally. Please visit their site for their upcoming events.

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