March 25, 2016Uncategorized A few records from Compiled Service Records Larger photos of a few records from Compiled Service Records
January 8, 2016January 8, 2016My Clark Ancestry, My Keller Ancestry Sometimes you just need to ask! While visiting the Burton Historical Collection this morning at the Detroit Public Library, I asked the librarian if the Hudson Department Store collection
December 31, 2015December 31, 2015Genealogy Exercises Time to Tally Up Your Family Tree for 2016 New Years is an excellent time to tally up your family tree for 2016. The goal of this exercise is to calculate
December 29, 2015December 31, 2015Detroit Ancestry & Stories, My Keller Ancestry Weekend Finds Genie Dance!!! ! Came across a blog post this weekend about one of my favorite maternal 2nd great grandfathers, Robert Keller and <gasp>…
December 20, 2015December 20, 2015My Clark Ancestry, Newspaper Clips That Was My Great Grandmother?!? Surprised but not totally unexpected.
December 16, 2015December 16, 2015My Gray Ancestry, My Thorp Ancestry The Unfortunate End Of Lyman Thorp Over the years, there have been quite a few collateral relatives, for one reason or another, I’ve semi adopted. One
December 9, 2015Detroit Ancestry & Stories McConville Family Fight Goes to the Michigan Supreme Court Perhaps if my 3rd GGM didn’t dress her son as a pimp at 11 yrs old, maybe he wouldn’t have flaunted rolls
November 26, 2015Obituaries Obituary: Death Overtakes Woman While She Sings at Work While working on my paternal side a while back, I noticed a bunch of wiggling leaves when I was adding a few
November 23, 2015November 23, 2015Uncategorized Cheers To My Maternal 2nd Great Grandfathers I consider myself fortunate to have the four maternal 2nd Great Grandfathers that I have. They were all extremely successful, not just