Roots & Rabbit Holes

It’s Week 21 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, and the topic is Yearbook. Although my Grampy Phil grew up in Westbrook, Maine, his mother sent...

Whenever I discover something I have in common with an ancestor, it helps me connect with them in a different, deeper way. One of my...

It’s week 19 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks and this week’s topic is Food & Drink. During our LaViolet family Christmases, we could be...

Week 18 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Social. There are few things more social than a close-knit neighborhood filled with people who...

Week 17’s topic for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Document. I mentioned back in Week 7 that my uncle has some heirlooms that were passed...

It’s week 16 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks and this week’s topic is Negatives. When my cousin scanned the Ladd and Turner family photos,...

“How Do You Spell That?” is the theme for week 15 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, and from the moment I started brainstorming ideas, I knew...

Sisters is the topic for week 13 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks, and some of my favorite childhood memories were when the “tantes,” my Nana...

Week 12 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Joined Together. My grandparents, Phil LaViolet and Connie Meloche, were joined together in...

It’s week 11 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge, and the topic is Flowers. I decided to take a slightly different approach and...

It’s week 10 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. Because the topic this week is Worship and this month is Women’s History Month,...

The topic for week 9 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks is Females, and I’ve been looking forward to sharing my great-great grandmother's story,...

Courting is one of those 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks prompts that was easy. How could I pass up the opportunity to share this lovely...

When I first caught the genealogy bug in college, it was easy to geek out with Grampy Phil, who had amassed an impressive amount of...

I don’t know how the rest of you approach the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge, but I wrote the list of weekly themes in the back of my...

This week’s theme for 52 Ancestors in 52 weeks is Branching Out, which brings me back to Grampy Phil’s binders. In them, he tells the...

It's Week 4 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. This week's theme is Curious. Not too long ago, I was thinking about how my grandparents, Phil...

I began this blog in order to take part in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. As genealogists, we tend to gather...