told for the future
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna get over that perfection paralysis.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled blog post for this important announcement: I am pleased to report that I have made a very special connection to family, friends, and neighbors who were lost in the Holocaust. In the past few days a flurry of emails have gone back and forth between my parents, myself, and a … Continue reading Unknown Family Members Identified
This isn't a William Faulkner novel, it's reality. It's also not like it sounds. When your family has deep roots in the same area where you were born and raised, it's bound to happen, and it doesn't take much digging to find family members marrying family members. They probably don't even know they were doing … Continue reading Cousin Connection #2 My Cousin Married My Cousin
Warning: Despite my insistence that this blog is all about graveyards and dead people, it's really about family history. This story is about part of my family, and it is part of my children's history, so even though they are still alive to tell this story themselves, I'm going to tell it now to keep it from … Continue reading A Boy and His Sister
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