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  • Army Pictures Gilbert, Mueller and Simpson

    See my original post for details about the photos from my dad’s Army scrapbook and please let me know if you recognize anyone in these pictures.

  • May Birthdays

    Happy May birthday to my favorite grandson, my cousin Alan, grandaunts Barbara and Marie, my granduncle Marv, my 2nd cousins Parick and Sean, my 3rd cousins once-removed Dianne and Judith, and my 4th cousins Mark and Renae. Birthdays among my German Bukmakowskis: A distant cousin Elsie Louise Caroline DOMKOWSKY (Carolina…

  • Army Pictures Fisher

    See my original post for details about the photos from my dad’s Army scrapbook and please let me know if you recognize anyone in these pictures.

  • They Make My Heart Race

    Are all ancestors created equal? Not so much, no. I don’t have any fancy-dancy ancestors. No one I know of (yet) signed the Declaration of Independence, was an Indian Princess, or held court from a throne wearing a diamond tiara. Most of the people from whom I descend were pretty…

  • Army Pictures Dean, Rhine and Taylor

    See my original post for details about the photos from my dad’s Army scrapbook and please let me know if you recognize anyone in these pictures.

  • Half Right means Half Left

    Genealogy can be challenging enough without libraries adding practical jokes to the mix. Particularly the Family History Library, an entity I always felt was on the side of the genealogist. But this latest experience left me shaking my head. I was looking for the 1859 baptismal record of my grandmother’s…

  • Army Pictures Kaskiel

    See my original post for details about the photos from my dad’s Army scrapbook and please let me know if you recognize anyone in these pictures.

  • Seek and Ye Shall Find

    Sometimes all you have to do is ask. And as simple as that. the answer appears. My 2012 genealogical New Year’s Resolutions include a list of “burning questions”.  While preparing to write my 1st quarter review, the question about the Walton family arrival in the US jumped out at me:…

  • April Anniversaries

    Happy 31st anniversary to my sister and her husband – a real feat these days (especially in our family)! An April anniversary that tugs at my heartstrings is that of my grandparents John George WALTON (1905-1980) and Harriet Kathlyn TOLF (1909-1954) who were married 12 Apr 1930 in Chicago Illinois.…

  • Army Pictures Louis

    See my original post for details about the photos from my dad’s Army scrapbook and please let me know if you recognize anyone in these pictures.