Roots & Rabbit Holes

We're on Week 49 of 2024's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge and the topic is one of my favorites: "Handed Down." I have many family...

The prompt for Week 47 of 2024’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge is “Random Number.”   We’re lucky we lived nowhere near a casino and...

Charles Barr, my great-great grandfather, was originally from Canada. He eventually moved to Salem, Massachusetts where he worked for...

After serving in Okinawa during WWII, Grampy Phil was relocated to Korea after the Japanese surrendered. While there, he and his fellow...

It’s Week 29 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge and the theme is Birthdays. Although Nana Connie visited her siblings and mother...

Back in 1909, my great-grandfather, Stanley Turner, was knocked out, robbed, garroted, and left for dead. Week 11’s theme of the 52...

It’s week 6 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge, and this week’s topic is Social Media. People often have a love-hate relationship...

Week 39 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge is Road Trip. Back in 1931 when my Grampy Phil and his cousin, Wilfred Barr, were...

Extended Family is the theme for week 27 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. One of my goals when when I inherited Grampy Phil’s...

“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...

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...