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The Life From The Roots blog topics have changed several times since I began this blog in 2009. I initially wrote only about the family history I had been working on for 20 years. Years later, I was into visiting gardens, historical homes, churches, libraries that had genealogical collections, historical societies, war memorials, and travel/tourism places. I also enjoy posting autographs and photos of famous people I've met or have seen.

Along with my New England roots, other areas include New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.

Please check out the labels on the right side for topics (please note, they need work). Below the labels and pageviews is a listing of my top nine posts, according to Google. Four of them pertain to Lowell, MA. These posts change often because they are based on what people are reading.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Grandmother and Me

My grandmother, Sarah Dumont Ten Eyck Bishop.

I don't remember this photo being taken, but it was in my grandparent's kitchen nook.  It is the only photo I have of us together, and this was probably when I first met her. I was brought up in California and she was living in Connecticut.

Sarah Ten Eyck left Dunham, Missisquoi Co., Quebec to attend a nursing school in the United States. I believe it was in Florida, as that is where she met my grandfather. They married in New York City and settled in his home state of Connecticut. Fortunately, she was the attending nurse at my birth in Connecticut.

She died shortly after this photo was taken, of lung cancer.
Many years earlier (1919) my grandmother was holding my mother, born in NYC.