Celebrate Your Name – March 2

It’s Celebrate Your Name Week.  So to celebrate, I’m going to do a post for each day’s festivities. Today is Namesake Day Today is for thinking about where you got your name and if you were named after a particular person, place, etc. Also, to […]

Orphan Photo #8

This orphan photo is unidentified. It was photographed by Z. Roberts of Roberts & Sumner’s Champion Gallery in Northfield, Minnesota.

Names, Places & Most Wanted Faces

Taking the bait from Craig over at GeneaBlogie, here’s my list of names, places, and most wanted faces. Names Places Cahill Cook Co., Illinois Kane Co. Illinois Thomastown, Kilkenny, Ireland Garrison Cook Co., Illinois Picton, Ontario, Canada Leppin Cook Co., Illinois Germany McMahon Cook Co. […]

Family Events – Week of March 1 to March 8

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

Saturday in the Attic – 02/28/09

This is a newspaper article, likely from 1972, for the infamous Rottman Family Reunion.  There’s a lot of wonderful information in this small amount of space!

Orphan Photo #7

This adorable photo was taken by Munger in Oconomowoc, Waukesha, Wisconsin.  The name John D Comstock is written on the back.

Lucky 21

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 […]

Family Events – Week of February 22 to February 28

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