Live Y’ers The 27th page of Sally’s photo album featured a collection of photos taken…

Barbara Mary Meyer (1881-1972) Barbara Mary Meyer was born on 09 Jun 1881 in Mendota,…

Birgit Tolleivsdatter Uppsata was born on 29 Sep 1760 in Ål, Buskerud, Norway. Uppsala has…

Stephen Bacon (1677-1766) Stephen Bacon was born on 21 Aug 1677 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts,…

Trees and Friends and Friends in Trees The eighth page of Sally’s photo album featured…

Picnic and Party The tenth page of Sally’s photo album featured a collection of photos…

Edward Hall was born on 18 Jul 1727 in Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, as the second…

Girls Gone Wild 1917 Style Nearly every week, a mystery is solved or some interesting…

Joseph Johnson (1676/77-1739) Birth Joseph Johnson was born 339 years ago today, on 09 Mar 1676/77¹,…

Joy cometh later in the afternoon – helping an adoptee connect Nearly every week, a…

Pierce Brownell (1781-~1802) Pierce Brownell is one of those ancestors who can frustrate his descendants….

This photo fell out of a box one day. It has no label other than…

Hope Borden (1747-<1810) Hope Borden was born on 28 Oct 1747 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode…

This is how much beer they normally pour. The Program for the 2016 Rochester Craft…

Rochester Minnesota, like a lot of places, is exploding with craft beer. In the last…

Bertha H. Stemson (1877-1968) Bertha H. Stemson was born on 05 Mar 1877 in Newry,…

Most days of most lives are “ordinary.” But, our ordinary is likely very different than…

Priscilla (1768-1851) Priscilla was born 29 May 1768 in New York. But, we don’t even…

Peter Morris Cornell (1829-1892) The search for Peter Cornell started fairly early in my adulthood…

Birgit Nilsdtr Lostegaard (1843-1887) Birth Birgit Nilsdtr Lostegaard was born on 23 Feb 1843 on…

Glimpses of Our Trip to Laona, 1920 The fourth page of Sally’s photograph album was…

Gals and Farm and Family Sally Aschbrenner is in back row, third from left. Elizabeth…

“Friendly staff. Nice beer selection. Filling food. And just down the road from home.” That…

This week we remember Frieda Lemke who was born 135 years ago today. Henriette Clara…

This toddler is outside on the farm. The photograph was part of a collection of…

State Historical Society of Iowa Nearly every week, a mystery is solved or some interesting…

Rochester Craft Beer Expo – 2016 We are only a few weeks away from the…

I really don’t want to be older than I already am, but I sometimes wish…

An Assortment Ice. Sally. Elizabeth Lemke and Sally Aschbrenner. Aschbrenner swimming, from left, Elsie, Fred,…

There was a man named John Farris… Nearly every week, a mystery is solved or…

Snow and Golf Sally (second from right) and friends enjoying winter. Sally (back, far left)…

When my parents recently gave me a pretty box full of miscellaneous stuff, I was…

Stengrim Halvorsen (1799-1870) Halvorsen or Halverson? It depended on who was keeping the records at…

New friends and new sights in Washington The 38th page of Sally’s photo album featured…

Welcome! This blog will offer musings on the favorite pursuits of genealogy and drinking. Combining…

DC and a Trip Home The 43rd page of Sally’s photo album featured pictures taken…

Camping is always an adventure… especially when raccoons are around! Camping with Raccoons is a…

Josiah Fuller (1729/30-1797) It has been verified that Josiah Fuller is in our family tree,…

Amelia A. Brace (1844-1926) Amelia A. Brace was born on 22 Mar 1844 in Akron,…

As the boat got closer to Europe, danger increased. Floyd didn’t share much detail though….

Gertrude Lovin Boyce  (1865-1957) Gertrude has made it easy for us to know about her…

Ludwig Stolp (1824-1894) Ludwig Stolp was born on 13 Mar 1824 in Rehe, Nassau, Germany,…

After a short night of sleep in a real bed, Floyd woke up to his…

In observance of Thank Your Mentor Day, I am writing about the importance of having…

Hannah Tolman (1642-1729) Hannah Tolman was born on 27 Jul 1642 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts…

The Meyer Family book is now available.

Girls and Relatives The fifth page of Sally’s photo album contained shots with friends and…

As our class reunion approached, a wise friend who now resides far away decided that…

Life in Camp Stuart kept Floyd busy. He didn’t have time to write much on…

Thomas Holmes (1744-1776) This birthday post was originally published in April 2016. Later, while working…

Zilpha Hodges (1807-1884) Zilpha Hodges was born on 18 Jan 1807 in Franklin, Virginia, as…

Joseph Baldwin (1751-1844) Joseph Baldwin, signature Birth Joseph Baldwin was born on 13 Sep 1751…

Martha Eldridge (1667-<1735) Martha Eldridge was born on 20 Apr 1667 in Driffield, Gloucestershire, England,…

Jane Elizabeth Cornell (1853-1942) Jane Elizabeth Cornell was born on 17 Jul 1853 in Grass…

When we last left Floyd, he was asleep on board a Norfolk & Western train…

Curtis & Yale Friends The eleventh page of Sally’s photo album featured a collection of…

Gottfried Friederick Draeger (1821-1899) Gottfried Friederick Draeger was born on 12 Jan 1821 in Dobberphul,…

Roseanna Fuller (1759-1844) Roseanna Fuller was born on 16 May 1759 in Amenia, Dutchess, New…

Mary Loverin (1792-1884) With the help of a family bible, an application for an 1812…

After a very early wake-up call, Floyd left from Newport News, Virginia, on 31 Jul…

Eliezer Fisher (1663-1733) Eliezer Fisher was born on 08 Jul 1663 in Dedham, Massachusetts, as…

This is the fifth segment in our series about women’s suffrage. In the first, you…

On a recent vacation to the Black Hills of South Dakota, we discovered that besides…

Friedrich Samuel Aschbrenner (1810-1885) Friedrich Samuel Aschbrenner was born on 19 Oct 1810 in Posen,…

Remember that letter that Arthur wrote to his brother Floyd back in late January? The…

Farm and Family Sally’s album starts in about 1920 when she was a teenager. Her…

Lucretia Brownell (1799-1857) Lucretia Brownell Johnson. If I had a time travel machine, Lucretia is…

In response to a card from him, Grandma Amelia “Millie” Phillips wrote to Floyd. Addressing…

Albert “Tom” Aveldo Phillips (1841-1925) Albert Aveldo Phillips was born on 26 Dec 1841 in…

Edmund Brace (1797-1884) Edmund Brace was born in 1797 in Connecticut. Where? When? To Whom?…

Wisconsin, Arlington, and Atlantic City The 44th page of Sally’s photo album featured a collection…

When Bennett and his son Merlin hear a strange scratching sound inside the granary, they…

Elizabeth Bowen Morris (1661-1743) Elizabeth Bowen was born on 26 Jan 1660/61 in Roxbury, Suffolk,…

A rare photograph from Friday, 16 May 1919, shows Floyd posing with a colleague named…

Elizabeth Linville (~1842->1871) Elizabeth A. Linville was born about 1842 in Callaway County, Missouri, as…

It’s official! I have become approved as a member of the Daughters of the American…

Genet Boyes (1754-1845) Genet Boyes was born on 25 Aug 1754 in Londonderry, Rockingham, New…

Thomas L. Antrim (1686-1732) Thomas L. Antrim was born on 30 Nov 1686 in Northampton,…

Still excited from his wedding on Wednesday, 8 January 1919, Arthur wrote a lengthy and…

Ervin Anklam Wedding plus The 25th page of Sally’s photo album featured a collection of…

Kristi Knudsdr (1807-1884) Knudsdr, Knudsdtr, and Knudsdatter are three ways that her name was written….

Mary Jane Frost (1825-1915) Mary Jane Frost was born on 05 Feb 1825 in Dorchester,…

Ole Knutson Aldahl (1814-1890) Ole Knutson Aldahl was born in 1814 (probably), but we don’t…

Marian in California and Miscellaneous Shots The 36th page of Sally’s photo album included many…

Arthur Guy Phillips was 24-years old, love-sick for his gal Florence, and perhaps feeling unappreciated…

Thomas Holmes (1710/11-1796) Oh Wow! Studying Thomas for this birthday post has certainly unlocked another…

Madison, Dells, Kids The 21st page of Sally’s photo album featured a collection of photos…

Thomas Borden (1682-1745) Thomas Borden was born on 13 Dec 1682 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode…

Silence Hickock (1713-1795) Silence Hickock was born on 19 Sep 1713 in Waterbury, New Haven,…

While Floyd was in the middle of the Atlantic on his way to the war,…

George Brownell (1711-1800) George Brownell was born on 21 Jun 1711 in Little Compton, Newport,…

Torkjel Johannesson Ovstedal (1772-1838) Torkjel Johannesson Ovstedal was born in 1772 on the Ovstedal farm,…

Who is this child? The photograph was part of a collection of photos originally owned…

John Bennett (1786-1837) John Bennett was born on 04 Apr 1786 in Orange, New York,…

A guest post by Joel. leg·a·cy/ˈleɡəsē/ nounnoun: legacy; plural noun: legacies the long-lasting impact of…

Jonathan Rockwell, Jr. (1711-1784) Birth This is the 305th anniversary of the birth of Jonathan…

Margaret Spike (1781->1855) Margaret Spike was born on 16 Mar 1781 in Saratoga, Saratoga, New…