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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Tombstone Tuesday - VAN WOERT

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Two generations of my direct lines of VAN WOERTs are buried at Plains Cemetery, Oneonta, Otsego Co., New York.  They were my 4th and 5th gr...
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Trying to Help a Friend

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Boott Mills, Lowell When my friend Joyce wrote me the other day, to see if I could check out a surname from whatever sources I could, I thou...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Surname Saturday - GATES

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When Bill West of West in New England wrote, The Case of Mary Gates  of Lancaster, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, I immediately went to m...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Seeing President Jimmy Carter

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President  Jimmy Carter The above was taken by me when he was in Boxboro, Massachusetts four months after winning the Presidential electi...
Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Tombstone Tuesday - Solomon and Hephzibah Prentice

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Old Burying Ground, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts Below are stones of my ancestors.  They were my 7th great-grandparents...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Looking Forward

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Photo by Joe Beine and used with permission. I absolutely love the above photo and thought others would like seeing it as well.  It cau...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

Looking Back

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There is good news and not so good.  First, The Happy 101 Award was given to me by the following six people. Thank you to each of you.  Plea...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Amazing Eliza Bishop -- Surname Saturday

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 Eliza Bishop was a young single woman who died at the age of 36, and buried in a cemetery plot all alone, all relatives in another sta...