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The 1977 Weekly Diary of Rose Jones Stewart Hochmuth

A few months ago, my cousin Kim gifted me with the 1977 weekly journal my great-grandma Rose Jones Stewart Hochmuth kept.  She was going to give me the one for the year I was born which was 1974 but it

Jill M. January 4, 2024 family history, history, Hochmuth, Jones, old records, Pickaway County, pictures, Rose's Journal, Stewart, Stewart family, Uncategorized Read more

Remembering Dad

My father passed away in October.  It’s taken me a while to write this.  I started this two weeks after he’d passed with the intent to publish it much sooner; it’s just taken me this long to get my thoughts

Jill M. April 19, 2022April 19, 2022 Caudill, Cordle, family history, Kentucky, Lemaster, military, Pickaway County, pictures, Uncategorized Read more

And then things change…

Life has a funny way of putting you where you *need* to be versus where you necessarily *want* to be.  When we moved to New York from Ohio, my genealogy had not expanded far past the Ohio/Kentucky borders.  It had

Jill M. August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 cemetery, DAR, family history, genealogy, history, newspaper clippings, old records, Orange County, research, secrets, Uncategorized, Wickham Read more

Long Lost Uncle Dale

I am so happy to write that I have managed to find a great big puzzle piece in my quest to find my 2nd great uncle Dale Stewart.  For new readers, let me briefly say that Dale was orphaned in

Jill M. September 22, 2017December 20, 2018 Archer family, family history, mysteries, old records, pictures, police records, secrets, Stewart, Stewart family, Uncategorized Read more

The Importance of Speaking to the Living

I cannot stress the importance of speaking to your living relatives NOW before it’s too late. In my genealogy course I taught, that was practically my first tip to my students and right now, I’m truly needing to practice what

Jill M. June 15, 2017October 6, 2017 family history, genealogy, history, Lemaster, Uncategorized Read more
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