Grandma and Aunt Lydia never spoke about Warren Jury loud enough for anyone to really hear what they were discussing.  Fortunately, their brother, Uncle Pat (my great-uncle) would talk.  However, if either of his sisters heard him, he would immediately be hushed.  Still, stories about Warren, a much younger half-brother of my Great-Grandmother Matilda (Jury) Peelle, circulated in the family.   Family Lore   The Stories Family lore said that Warren was very spoiled by

This week’s topic is to write about ourselves.  But, writing about myself is a very difficult task.  It is much easier to write about people in my family’s history whose stories I find fascinating.  So, I compromised in a sense and wrote about the various people and things that got me interested in genealogy.   Sources Of Interest   My genealogy interest come from several different people.  First, Dad was a history buff.  He loved

  Cousins can be almost anybody.  I could probably write about the guy at the meat store and be able to research and find out that he is a Nth generation cousin.  However, when I think about cousins I think first about my first cousins.  So, when the topic of cousins came up I decided to go to my first cousins.  Rather than write extensively about any one cousin (Who would I pick?), I chose

If you would have told me earlier this year that by the end of the year I would have had the opportunity to hear the voice of a family member born during the Civil War almost 160 years ago, I would have chuckled and told you, “Not likely.”  But, believe it or not, it happened!   Collecting Records   I had communicated and shared records with Rod’s Dad’s first cousin Dean Thomson for years.  However,

The very first time I made cinnamon rolls was for a McCracken family gathering when I was a teenager. Uncle Don loved them, but all Dad could say was, “Well, they are pretty good, but they aren’t like mom’s.”  Despite the fact that I had no idea that I was supposed to be making them like Grandma’s, that batch of cinnamon rolls led to the quest to recreate Grandma McCracken’s cinnamon rolls.   The Quest