As we in the United States celebrate Black History Month, I want to highlight my ardent search in my family tree to discover whether any...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025 January 5 -11, 2025 Week One 2025 To Aldo: Here is the story of your heroism that needs to be retold and...

Christmas memories This blog post is a special one that I wrote last year at Christmas about a cherished Christmas holiday memory in my...

Some interesting true historical facts you may not know about our American Thanksgiving   Every fourth Thursday of November Americans...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 44 September 16 – 22, 2024 Challenging John Allen   John Allen was one of my first paternal ancestors that...

Veterans Day 2024   To honor those in my family tree who served in the United States military throughout hundreds of years I have created...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 40 Least Temperance Wilcox Lord & Lucinda Hall Lord   I never met my maternal great-grandfather, Irvin O....

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 37 September 9 -15, 2024 Tombstone I find old cemeteries fascinating, even though my family may think it’s...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 36 – September 2 – 8, 2024 “We Don’t Talk About It”   Are there a lot of interesting facts that you do not...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 35, August 26 – September 1, 2024 All Mixed Up The Smith surname is one in my family tree may and has...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 34 – August 19-25, 2024 Member of the Club As I began to search for information about clubs and...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 33 – August 12 – 18, 2024 Favorite Discovery   While there are a number of “favorite discoveries” that I...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 32 – August 5 -11, 2024 Free Space The Apple Farm  The year was 1944, the United...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 31 – July 29 - August 4, 2024 End of the Line We all have them, we all spend time searching for them, but...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 30 – July 22-28, 2024 Boats Annie Charity White, my maternal great-grandmother While I know that a number...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 28, July 7 – 14, 2024 Trains To say that trains played a large part in my Allen family tree would be an...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 26 June 24 – 30, 2034 Family Gathering As family gatherings go my family had quite number of them as I...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 25 June 17th -June 23rd, 2024 Storyteller My family does not have any one particular ancestor that I can...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 25 June 10 -16, 2024 Hard Times The Great Depression brought hardship to many people during the 1930s in...

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Week 23 June 3rd to June 9th, 2024 Health “Heart disease runs in our family, diabetes runs in our family,...