This poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar feels appropriate for 2020. Focusing on what is plentiful and abundant, feels necessary more than ever. While making an apple pie yesterday, I received an …
Thanksgiving Journaling
I'm an advocate of journaling and put out a call for genealogists to journal their way through 2020. The number and depth of changes to our daily lives needs to be recorded. Not just for ourselves, …
Working from Home
Since March 13, 2020 I've been working from home 100% of the time. Gone is the archival research, libraries, and in-person genealogy meetings. It occurred to me that this work based at home is the …
Messages from Great Grandmother
Each day I think of my great grandmother. Grandma Curry, born Anna Mae Heberling in 1898, died in 1980. Her mother died when she was six years old, and her father died when she was 16. She got married …
The 1918 Flu Your Ancestors Lived Through
One of the danger zones of genealogical research is not examining the historical context of our ancestors lives. We know that our ancestors lived through big events, but how those events occurred …
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Terrorist Attacks in Pennsylvania
Today we think of terrorism as starting in recent history, 50 years ago or so. In fact, the United States was hit with a series of terrorist attacks from 1918 through 1920. The attacks occurred in …