I love a good family mystery and when I received a hint for my second great-aunt Rosa Ellen Eccard Brown in Ancestry the other day about dying from shock received from burns, I knew I had a real whopper on
John Wickham & Bemus Heights
I’m very fortunate to live within 15 minutes of where my 7th GGF and Revolutionary War patriot, John Wickham, was stationed for a time at Fort Montgomery, New York. I’ve written before about visiting there and the surreal experience of
Finding Nancy Jane Wickham Archer
This is my first post in almost 10 months. I haven’t been writing at all or really working on my own genealogy this past year; my last post was about my father’s death and I’d been struggling for some time
The Dale Chronicles Continues
I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever be done researching my great uncle Dale Stewart. Dale’s life has been and continues to be, a source of constant fascination for me. He’s like a puzzle I want to solve. Frequent readers and
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