Fyrewurks

Just like Hemingway. He showed me anyway. You can be a hero, all you have to know is what to say. Unfortunately, I don’t always know what to say… but I do have a penchant for words and that’s why I was delighted to discover Hemingway in my family tree!  He’s not in the direct [...]

Ok, as I mentioned in my last post, I’m planning on blogging on my family tree.  I was all ready to do that right here until I thought about how I would really need to categorize each family line separately.  And I don’t know that I want this blog to have all of those family [...]

I’ve decided that since this blog is all about me and my life, it would be the best place to post all of the genealogy information that I’ve gathered. In the past few weeks I’ve visited relatives and gathered a wealth of photos and information about my family (and I still have more people to [...]

On Ancestry.com I was tracing a line of my family tree back and got to the royal name “Plantagenet,” however there is a mysterious link in this chain (Herman Op Den Graeff) that could very well mean this line is false – but here’s what I got anyway: Early royal tree (not necessarily connected to mine): [...]

A week ago I found a new obsession – Ancestry.com!  I decided to start working on our family tree and signed up with them because they have massive amounts of records scanned and added to their database – census records, immigration records, birth and death records, and much more.  So I decided that getting a [...]