Saturday, 31 May 2025

My Parents' Christmas Season Wedding (52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025 Week 23 theme: "Wedding Bells")

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Some of us seem to buck the June wedding trend in my family. My own two marriages were in the Christmas season; my maternal grandparents wer...
Saturday, 24 May 2025

2000 Reunion at Waterton Lakes National Park (52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025, Week 22 theme: "Reunion")

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Attendees - Getting Everyone Posed was a Challenge! It will be a quarter century in July since the Wescott-Edwards-Anderson Reunion at Water...
Saturday, 3 May 2025

This Genealogist's Dream: Chester Fritz Library (52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025 Week 19 Theme: "At the Library")

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Accessing Norwegian bygdeb øker (farm books)  had been high on my wish list for many years. Farm books were compiled by respected historians...
Friday, 2 May 2025

Civil War Volunteer George W. Payton, Sr. (52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025 Week 21 Theme: "Military")

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(George relates to my family through his marriage to my great great grandmother Barbara Hoover Edwards, making him stepfather to her 4 child...
Saturday, 26 April 2025

Ancestral Connections to University of Cambridge (52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025, Week 18 Theme: "Institutions")

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My English-born husband punted us on the River Cam on my first visit to Cambridge, England. (Punting is a means of propelling a flat-bottome...
Sunday, 20 April 2025

George Wheeler of Concord (1605-1687), 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2025 Week 20 theme: "Wheels"

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Unless there is duplication, we have 1024 sets of 10th great grandparents. This overwhelming number explains why my 10th great grandfather G...