Last week, I shared the discovery of an old photograph of a gravestone in my archives. Today, I'm sharing one of the other photos I found alongside the gravestone within a Christmas card addressed to my grandmother. When I first saw this photograph I thought, perhaps they were children of my grandmother's sister, Dot and [...]
As I was traveling down the branches of my family tree looking for a potential post to jump out and bite me, I noticed something about the families of distant cousins. They all remained close together throughout the early part of the twentieth century. While certainly, the ties of family may have been closer in [...]
There's an Ancestry.com commercial that catches my attention whenever I chance to see it. It's the story of a man who, with the help of AncestryDNA and Ancestry records, discovered he's the descendant of an Irish fisherman with blue eyes, just like him. Whenever I see it, I'm reminded that I'm the daughter and grand-daughter [...]
BRIANNA WRIGHT 