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How I Got Into Genealogy
Not many people can say they got started at 12, but I did! Here's the full story.
July 1991 – 2013
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Connecting Cousins: the Polívka Puzzle
Crossing the threshold after 210 years, two branches of the same family re-unite under a single roof
1766 – 03/19/2013
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Losing One Family Member, But Gaining Generations
I consider this my first "genealogy" moment. 1984. I was 9 years old.
1984 – December 1984
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The woman behind the picture
She is not smiling for the photo. She is not even looking at the camera. Who is my great grandmother? What does her expression mean?
1828 – 1917
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Nels and Ane Marie: Becoming Americans
Nels Sommer & Ane Marie Jonasen met and married in Denmark and had their first two children there before emigrating to Rockford, Illinois.
21 May 1852 – 18 Mar 1940
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The Widow Sanger: Poverty & Charity in 1700 Mass
Mary Reynolds, Kent, England, arrived 1630, married Richard Sanger 1649, 7 kids. In 1705, at 75, begging food/wood at town meeting.
1475 – 46
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Who Do You Think You Are: Jim Parsons
He wanted to find a connection to France and an ancestor who was an artist like him... and his genealogy delivered the goods!
16 March 1761 – December 7, 1854
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It started with an elbow and a hot dog
My parents met when they were both stationed near Washington DC during WWII.
1944 – 1944
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Samuel McCormick (abt.1831-1887)
After fleeing Ireland as a young man, during the potato famine, Samuel settles on a farm in Burlington, New Jersey, and has eight children.
1831 – Sep 1979
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The Cowherd and the Ferryman
The Stowers and Burrage families: our 10th and 9th great grandparents
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