In previous posts, I wrote about my great grandmother Mae Arla (King) McKenzie and the letters she wrote to her daughter Cora. As in everything, timing and context are important when analyzing the lives of our ancestors. To catch up on the life of Mae and her family thus far, take a moment…
In a previous post, Letters From Home: Mae McKenzie I wrote about my great grandmother Mae Arla (King) McKenzie and the letters she wrote to her daughter Cora. As in everything, timing and context are important when analyzing the lives of our ancestors. To catch up on the life of…
We have all run into the “related to royalty” theory along our genealogy journey. Have a wonderful weekend!
My great grandmother, Mae Arla (King) McKenzie would have been 116 years old today. In celebration of her birthday, I would like to share a letter written by her to her daughter Cora. Several of these letters, as well as cards and photos, were given to me a couple of…
City directories are one of my favorite resources, especially the directories from Sault Ste. Marie, Chippewa County, Michigan. I have so many ancestors that lived in this city. This makes it an adventure to search the directories. My maternal grandparents, Alfred Joseph Royer and Grace Elizabeth Anne (Brock) Royer lived…
I mentioned in earlier blog posts that I had signed up for the Research Like a Pro e-Course created by Diana Elder, AG and Nicole Dyer from FamilyLocket.com.
In the first three lessons, I created a research objective, analyzed existing sources by creating a timeline, and created a locality guide for Steuben County, New York.
In this lesson, we start bringing everything together that we have done in all previous lessons. For me, this step in the process was when I started to see all my hard work from the previous lessons really pay off. I felt that I knew what I was looking for and felt great about the direction I was moving with my research.
In April, the Walbecq family welcomed a new family member. Meet Whiskey. He is a Golden Retriever/Texas Heeler mix. He is almost 4 months old. He joins his older doggie brother Jojo, black lab/chow chow mix, who is 8 years old. In honor of both of my furbabies, today’s Friday…
This isn’t the first time that my great grandfather, Orlie Charles McKenzie, has appeared in a “Thriller Thursday” post. Unfortunately, in this post, things don’t turn out well for Orlie. The story I am going to share today has been repeated many times in my family. There is a little…
This picture is of my great grandfather Orlie Charles McKenzie, with an unknown friend, very proudly displaying a bear that one of them had shot. The photo was most likely taken in Montmorency County, Michigan, and was given to me by my grandmother Edna Jean (Burt) McKenzie. Orlie Charles McKenzie…
Every once in a while a new and surprising fact or story pops up about an ancestor when you are least expecting it. This happened to me the other day when a family member shared a photo of my 2nd great-grandmother Mariam Blass and her second husband Earl John Muckle….
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