Remarriage vs. Widowhood
Which was most likely, widowhood or remarriage? It was partially an economic decision. If a widow had enough wherewithal to stay put in the house or on the home farm, she did, especially with younger children for whom she...
Read moreResearch Suggestions for Common Surnames
How to Research a Brown line or Hints for Researching Common Surnames When bringing the Henritze line in America forward from Balthaser Henritze and Dorothea (Rapp) Henritze of Reading, there is one daughter who married Conrad Braun, son of...
Read moreThank you to all the girls who coach girls
Role Models Woman Coaching Women Girls Coaching Girls Fifteen years ago, Emily coached my daughter swimming. When I see her mother Eleanor at the grocery store, I smile, now, a decade and half later. Sometimes, I still say thanks....
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Virginia Chancery Court Records
Library of Virginia Virginia Memory: Chancery Court Records I have been lacking a death date for Mary Stella (Henritze) Ferguson for several decades. Jewel Sykes suggested a Texas death with no date probably found in The Ferguson Connection by...
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Second Cousins – Excellent Photograph Repositories
Never seen photographs of your grandparents may be with second cousins. Siblings share parents First cousins share grandparents Second cousins share great grandparents Third cousins share great great grandparents Fourth cousins share great great great grandparents So what...
Read moreLocal Newspapers vs. the World Wide Web
I just went through every page in the Sports section of today’s Denver Post to see who won the Boulder Valley Summer Swim League Championship Races yesterday. Nowhere in the entire Sunday Sports section does this information appear. While I...
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