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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

Daniel Goodwin Durbin’s Tale

I haven’t written very much yet about my husband’s family but this story is pretty interesting for us so I wanted to share.  My husband’s grandmother Barb had heard a very long time that her grandfather had died during World

Jill M. November 7, 2018November 7, 2018 Durbin, family history, history, mysteries, newspaper clippings, Uncategorized Read more

General James Clinton & I

I have said it before that my genealogical journey has always been quite serendipitous in nature.  Good things and wonderful people have just seemed to cross my path time and again.  With it, though, comes a great amount of weird

Jill M. September 21, 2018September 23, 2018 cemetery, DAR, family history, genealogy, history, old records, pictures, research, Uncategorized, Wickham Read more

Updates Coming!

Our site will be undergoing a makeover sometime here in the next month so if it looks a bit different or is down for a bit, please bear with us!  We will be back – promise!

Jill M. July 26, 2018July 26, 2018 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
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