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Digging up my roots!
Category: My Family Lines
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Surnames
I admit it. I have ancestor bias. Having spent an inordinately disproportionate time on my Stanwood, Bradstreet, Bursley and Day families, all early immigrants to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, I’ve most recently been tracking down the forebears of my Veland and Gravdahl Norwegian ancestors. Other surnames and collateral lines I’m researching (including the regions in…
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Grandparents make the world a better place – a tribute to my Grandmother, Goldie Simpson Edwards
In the era when families are spread through the U.S., I suppose my family was quite an anomaly. So much so that in later years my grandmother would often remark, “I must have done something wrong – I just can’t rid of you kids!” Of course, all of us “kids,” now well into adulthood with…
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Why Genealogy? And the pictures that started it all!
Last night I went to the Family History Center just long enough to order the microfilms I needed for Somerset County, PA – taxes, naturalization records, church records, etc. Yup, just a brief stop and then I’d head home and start my after-work chores. Well, lucky for me, two of the eight films I’d planned…
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The Gene Bug that keeps biting!
It’s hard to believe that last year this time I was just putting together a sketch of my Uphouse family in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Using the censuses, I came up with some hypotheses on relationships – and most have proved correct! When Henry Uphouse died, his kids seemed to be spread abroad throughout Somerset and…
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Pennsylvania research – oh the value of research trips!
My husband and I just returned from a five-day research trip in Pennsylvania. It was a whirlwind trip, and as I had limited time, I had to focus my priorities and not allow myself to get distracted. What wonderful results! I could easily have spent the entire time at the wonderful Somerset County Historical Society! …
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In Memory of My Daddy, James Ennis
Webster’s dictionary defines “father” as “a man that has begotten a child.” I disagree. A father is a man who has loved, raised and cared for a child. A man who has cared for and raised a child he has not “begotten” is even more to be cherished, and is even more of a father. …
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Genealogy – Old Fashioned Style
In my last post I discussed how the use of the internet has expedited some of my research. However, I’ve also learned that sometimes we can become too reliant on databases, web searches and other online tools. Sometimes we just need to go back to basics. Such is the case in my search for a…
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Where is Grandma Caroline?
12.28.23 update: Caroline Stanwood found in 1894! See post here! I’ve been researching the Stanwood family close to twenty years now. (Well, actually, maybe a bit longer than that, but I’ve been serious about it for about that time.) The “finds” are fewer and far between now, and I still have a few mysteries plaguing…
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Hello world!
Growing up, my grandmother, Goldie (Simpson) Edwards, played a pivotal role in my life. Living next door to her, I spent much of my time at her home. Later, when she moved across town, Mom would drop me off at “Grammer’s” house before school, and the bus would take me there after school. Grammer was…
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