Genealogy, inspired!
My Heritage Journal has been wildly neglected for much of this year. The simple truth is that I’m attempting to begin each ancestor’s spread in order and I’ve just not been ready to dive into my paternal grandma Jean’s spread. Jean was a complicated woman who I never had the opportunity to meet and the…
Faced with a brood of young children entering their teen years in the 1960s, my maternal grandma and grandpa decided to move the family out of New York City and to the country. As writers and artists, the idea was simple enough… We had had the city. Obviously, our markets were there, but we couldn’t…
A little over a year ago, much to my delight, I requested and received my very first Civil War Pension File. At well over 400 pages, the record blew my mind and offered several insights into John Patrick Brogan‘s Irish origins and USA experiences during and after the Civil War. Looking only one generation back,…
Welcome July and a new approach to attacking my ever-hopeful and never-ending task list: 3+3! As I mentioned in my last post and in bits and pieces elsewhere, we family historians tend to be quite passionate about the research and documentation of our families. Sometimes, that passion can turn on us, though, leading to guilt…