According to my maternal line great grandmother's confirmation certificate, Emilia [Emilie] Kiesel was born 20 May 1895 in Wistka Szla...

August Ginter was my mother's mother's father, my great grandfather. He was born 1 February 1891 [1] to August Ginter and Marianne...

What I learned from Clarence or how I am going to do these #52Ancestors posts.  I cannot write a biography for a different ancestor ...

Birth 1883 in Stonington, Connecticut Irene Bertha Hammond was born 10 April 1883 1 in Stonington, Connecticut  almost exactly a year af...

Birth My great grandfather, Charles Alvin Burrell, was born in Medway, Massachusetts, on Christmas Day in 1887 to Everett Augustus Burre...

This challenge  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks  is provided by  Amy Johnson Crow   of  No Story Too Small    (Don't you just love that title...

Are you wondering where the genealogy went? Please permit and forgive this period of self indulgence. My daughter is still recovering from ...

We've been sitting in a hospital room for a couple of days with this girl. Thankfully she was born with a resilience that few c...

This little, blue eyed beauty stole my heart sixteen years and four months ago.  "on the day that you were born the angels got...

We leave behind bits and pieces of our lives. Bubba left a poem, torn from a magazine. The poem by Loretta Garing is titled "I Sat in ...

It appears that we may NOT be from the Brainard family. It happens and you should expect that when you delve into your family's g...

Welcome to 2012! It's time to start thinking about scrapbooking your family history . Whether you are a digital or paper scrapper, yo...