Reflections

 Written Nov 25, 2020 Thanksgiving arrives tomorrow and I will be cooking dinner for me alone. Am I sad? No. I have much too be grateful des...

So you want to write a book? You need curiosity, love of knowledge, know your subject and eager to write it down. Bring readers in to prop...

  Jürgen Trapp, son of Emil and Elizabetha Trapp One of the greatest joys genealogy has given me was discovering my cousin, Jürgen Trapp, wh...

     I look up at heaven and say to my husband, “It started with just you and me, now we number twenty-seven. I see the faces of our childre...

Bob and Elsie                                                    The Story Behind Reprieve           It was in 1982 when the George O. Jenki...

Ellen Sullivan Wilber, my third great grandmother, known as Nellie was widowed at age 28.  She was two months pregnant with her fifth chil...

  Herman (Heinrich) Roesch, my 2nd great uncle was born in Baden, Germany on July 8, 1845. He sailed to America with his parents and sibling...

  The Keith family emigrated from Scotland to Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1662. The Rev. James Keith became the first minister in town. It...

     Oscar Sidney Maxell was born in Orient, Maine on June 1, 1879 on Maxell Settlement Road. He held the position of deacon in the Orient B...

Arthur Belmont Smith was my 1st cousin 1x removed. He was the first born child of Perley and Agnes Smith. Perley was brother to my grandfath...