Some recipes call for one egg, some for two, sometimes one instead of two will do.  But, sometimes, one will not do if it...

    Arthur Reid Thomson was only 16 years of age when he boarded a ship for America.  His grandfather, he claimed, was sending him...

  It is one thing to be related to almost everybody in the cemetery.  It is another thing to be related to three of your...

I find that many of the stories that I write are about family secrets or at a minimum - things that were taboo or just...

It seems it would be much easier to be the first wife.  You are typically younger, you can set expectations, you don't have to mother...

  My McCracken lineage has always been something of a mystery.  My great-great grandfather Lemuel Lawrence McCracken was so hard to trace that I joked...

  Passco “Pat” R. Peelle was the last Passco in our family line, the last standing Peelle in our family line, and drove the streetcar...

  This story starts with a Seaman’s Certificate and ends with orphans, “servants,” George Washington’s hair, and a body donated to science.    The Certificate...

  Many of us think of wagon trains when we think of people moving westward.  However, when my Peelle family moved from Indiana to Kansas...

WWII called people into many different roles.  Some were on the front lines and others made sure that the people on the front lines were...