In October 2016, I visited the Moffat Library for part of my genealogy course program to examine historic manuscripts. The Moffat Library had in their vaults a collection of letters from the Caldwell family of Salisbury Mills. Shockingly, these handwritten
The Woodhulls of Orange County
Last night, I gave a presentation to my DAR chapter on the Woodhulls of Orange County, NY. Unfortunately, my camera quit recording 13 seconds into my presentation so there is no footage of me giving the actual talk. I’ve rerecorded
Giving Up His Girl
I never had the opportunity to meet my great-grandmother, Laura Grim. In fact, my father never met his grandmother either; she died twenty-four years before he was even born, after suffering many years with tuberculosis.¹ There isn’t anyone alive in
Lemaster & Cordle Family Resemblances
I have been quite unfortunate to have not found many genealogy references to the Lemaster or Cordle families from Lawrence and Boyd counties in Kentucky during the course of my research. They’ve been notoriously hard to document as many were
A Long Awaited Record Arrives
That moment when you finally, finally find a record you’ve been searching for after months of endless research and dead ends…. JUST HAD IT! I opened my mailbox today and found an envelope from the KY Historical Society and held