Category Archives: GenBlog

Randy over at Genea-Musings asks: Who is #21 on your Ahnentafel list? Sarah Jane WARD, my second great-grandmother, was born in April 1875 in Illinois to Bridget and ?? Ward.  She married Timothy J McMAHON about 1899.  He was born on 14 May 1874 in […]

Weekly column sharing birth, marriage, and death events for people in my family tree.

On Tuesday, I posted Bingo! (and a few lessons learned).  The long and the short is that I finally found my grandfather in the 1930 census.  He was indexed as Jack Isbill, when in actuality it should have been Jack Cahill. I submitted corrections to […]

There are some many wonderful people out there willing to help others in the genealogy research.  Between Facebook and blogging, I’ve met many of those wonderful people, and it’s a pleasure to know them. Just in the last few days, I’ve experienced RAOGK (Random Acts […]

This is a newspaper clipping that I found in the Webster family Bible a few weeks ago.  I have no idea what paper it came from (likely something in or around Pontiac, Michigan) nor when, as I have no idea when he died.  I am […]

Prompt – Share your holiday traditions. How did you spend the 4th of July? Did the fire truck ever come to your house on Thanksgiving? Share your memories of all holidays, not just the December ones.

Prompt – Let readers in to your kitchen. Discuss your family’s favorite foods. What was a typical Sunday dinner in your childhood house? What did grandma make that had you coming back for more? Were there any dishes that the dog wouldn’t even eat?

Sometimes you find things when you’re not looking for them.  I haven’t had that experience in a while, so it was a huge and welcomed surprise when it happened.