My Dinner With: Trooper James
When I started this series several weeks ago, my thought was to interest readers in questions that we have about our ancestors. Along with that would be a meal that I would share with...
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One Good Photo: The Heinly Family
Photographs are so important to genealogists. They give us a window into the world of the past—something that names and dates just can’t do. Often, we pull out a photograph of long ago and...
The Paper Chase: 3500 and Beyond
Several months ago about 2000 names had been added into Beechroots, the computer-based family record keeping tool created by Andrew in 2016. Now, Andrew’s wife Sara, cousin Ben Hagenbuch from the Illinois branch of...
Getting to Know the Family—Through Social Distancing
We are going through a crisis at this time that we never could have imagined just a few months ago. Our visits with our children and grandchildren living in Yardley, Pennsylvania and Freeport, Maine...
Painting Portraits of Our Family, Part 1
An often heard quote states: “Find a job you enjoy doing and you won’t have to work a day in your life.” Most people’s first jobs are out of necessity and aren’t what they...
Child Mortality and the Family of Joseph Hagenbaugh
One of my goals for our Hagenbuch genealogy is to document all of the descendants of Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715) and place them on our family tree. So far, over 2,000 of these have...
2020: What Will Be Remembered?
As genealogists we always have the word “legacy” in the back of our minds. What will the legacy of our family be? What has it been in the past? What will be remembered about...
One Thought Led to Another… FAMILY!
It’s not always easy to come up with an article for our genealogical site. Believe me, Andrew and I have a lot of ideas, but we also want fresh and exciting features to mix...
The Bedding Connection
Several weeks ago, we visited friends of ours in Virginia. We stayed two nights. If you are like Linda and me, you never sleep well in a strange bed. In fact, Linda and I...
A New Leaf on the Family Tree
Occasionally, I ponder what Andreas Hagenbuch (b. 1715, d. 1785) would think of his extensive family tree. During his lifetime, Andreas knew his children and some of his grand children. How might he react...
