Roots & Rabbit Holes

Week 25 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks covers the theme Broken Branches. I’m not 100% sure what constitutes a broken branch. Is it when a...

Popular Name is the theme for Week 24 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. One name crops up in my family over and over, and unfortunately for...

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...

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...

“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...

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...