Recently, I've been revisiting a family line, one that has many blank spaces and empty lines. With the help of the Internet and, I believe, a generous helping of fate, I've been able to fill in more of the story of the life of my 3x great-grandmother, Minnie Igle Wildrick. Perhaps fate can strike twice [...]
Today, I want to share a little bit of family lore. After I stumbled into contact with a distant cousin, she emailed me pages of an interview that she had done years before with her grandmother. Her grandmother, Rhoda, was sister to my great-grandfather, Freeman Wildrick. In the interview, Rhoda shares a story about their grandmother's sister, Fannie [...]
Earlier this year, on a complete whim, I wrote a post about my 3x great-grandmother, Minnie Igle Wildrick. I was browsing around on my family tree and for whatever reason, I kept returning to Minnie's profile page. Okay, I said. Let's begin telling your story. Little did I know that that post would bring me [...]
BRIANNA WRIGHT 