Reflections

It all started in Grant County, Wisconsin, when James read a newspaper story of a 14-year-old boy in a double slaying murdered a man and his...

A brief history: In early times this name was spelt "Locard" or Lokart." Like so many Scottish families, the Locards came f...

In 1934 a child of age seven listens to adults talking, "He's nothing but a horse thief". What does that mean?  Fast forward t...

     Antonia  Chicanowicz, a Polish woman, was born in Vilna, Russia in 1894.   From 1795 to 1918 the area was under the Imperial Russian...

DNA has become the hot topic of conversation these days. You see it advertised on television just about every day where people express being...

  “Necessity is the mother of invention”, meaning, when the need for something becomes imperative.   That quote, author unknown, has guid...

Joseph H Smith, my great grandfather decided that he would leave Bridgewater, Massachusetts and move back to Maine, the state of his birth....

Some ancestor pictures cry out to be placed in a frame and hung in a place of honor. It was difficult to choose which ancestor picture to ...

This past March I began a Genealogy Club.  What did I get myself into? Not everyone has the tools for research so I sit with them individual...

Genealogy is an interesting journey for those of us that wish to find our ancestors. Who were they, what did they look like and how did they...