Category Archives: family history
Motivational Monday: Writing my Family’s History
This week, Brain, Child magazine is featuring an essay that I wrote for them several years ago. I didn’t realize it at the time, but the topic of the essay was the impetus for me to start tracing my family … Continue reading
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Sentimental Sunday: My Great Grandmother’s Poem?
In honor of National Poetry Month celebrated in April, I’ve been meaning to post a poem that I believe my great grandmother, Josephine wrote over 100 years ago. On March 2, 1893, this short death notice appeared in the Southwestern … Continue reading
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Follow Friday: Family Photos Resurrected
A few days before Easter, I got the best resurrection gift ever, if there can be such a thing. My brother-in-law sent a disc to me (and everyone in my family) with scanned copies of every family photo of ours … Continue reading
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Follow Friday: Calm after the Storm
I’m happy this Friday not to be following any storms like Hurricane Sandy or the subsequent Nor’easter that dropped about a half a foot of snow on our town, up to two feet in other areas. I’d always wondered how … Continue reading
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Wordless Wednesday: 96 and Still Swinging!
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Monumental Monday: Freedom’s Fortess National Park
Two weeks ago on November 1st, President Barack Obama signed a proclamation designating Fort Monroe in Hampton, VA. a National monument. Fort Monroe is the site where slavery had it’s beginning and ending here in the U.S. I learned about … Continue reading
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Visiting my Family’s History: Chestertown, MD
For Spring Break, my family and I headed to the Eastern Shore of Maryland to visit our history. It was there in Kent County, that my third great-grandfather, William R. Stuart was born, studied at Washington College, married, and raised … Continue reading
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Family Tree Magazine Blog Nomination
Yesterday, Christmas showed up a little early and in my email. That seems to be the way I get all of my best genealogy-related surprises. First, a third cousin, once removed shows up in my ancestry.com email a year and … Continue reading
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World Aids Day: Remembering Gordon Kurtti
Gordon Kurtti was my husband’s younger brother. He died in 1987 at age 27 from AIDS. Although we never met, I always feel as if we did. I pass a picture of him putting pearls around his sister’s neck on … Continue reading
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Motivation Monday: Finding Ancestors in the Stirling Family Papers
Finally, the Stirling Family papers have arrived on five rolls of microfilm at my local library! The Stirling Family papers are a collection of deeds, wills, diaries of slave life, and letters that belonged to the Lewis Sterling family, owner … Continue reading
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