Poor Grandma Rose! The week started so nicely for her with a burst of pretty sunshine, Olive’s birthday, and a somewhat poetic reflection on tall, swaying grass before taking an unexpected, if not chilly, turn of events at the end
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
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
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
My Kentucky Conundrum
I am used to dealing with the “two men, same name, same area” issues with my NSDAR applicants but I hadn’t come across it within my own family until the other day. It’s not a particularly “fun” problem to run