Adoption and Genealogy
Cousins are Cousins. I have very few first cousins. First cousins once removed, second cousins, and third cousins abound, including two second cousins who...
Read moreMemorabilia With a Story
Family stories, amazing or amusing? My maternal grandmother passed away in 2000. Amongst a box of her papers, I found a fifty-year-old uncancelled check....
Read moreHow to Date a Snapshot
Finding an old labeled snapshot is so rewarding, because there are hundreds of unlabed specimens in drawers, boxes and albums everywhere.
Read moreAntique Touring Car 1909 or 1910
Like many families, we have studio photographs, snapshots, and now digital photographs galore. Way too many of them are not labeled. However, those that are...
Read morePrestonia P.T.A. Jefferson Co., Kentucky, 1950
Flora A. Breitenstein, a.k.a. Mrs. Emil R. Breitenstein, was the president of the Prestonia P.T.A. in Jefferson Co., Kentucky in 1950. She saved memorabilia...
Read moreImmigration
America – A Nation Of Immigrants If, as I have long suspected, Temperence (Baley) Cocke was the daughter of Cecely (?) Jordan Farrar, she...
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