
Day 27 – A Fine Finale to our Ancestry Journey!
So many times on this journey we have been blessed – with great weather, with amazing ancestry discoveries and with wonderful visits. Today was one of those wonderful visit days. […]
So many times on this journey we have been blessed – with great weather, with amazing ancestry discoveries and with wonderful visits. Today was one of those wonderful visit days. […]
Ahh, Homolovi is so peaceful and beautiful that we think we’ll stay another few days. Kidding – only about the longer stay. It really is a special place. There’s definitely […]
The blog entries are thinning as our journey comes to an end. Now, it’s pretty much us making our way west. Today we’re back in Homolovi State Park, the campground […]
We took risk yesterday and tried another New Mexico State Park. This time we lucked out. Bluewater State Park is a campground nestled in some sparse NM trees sitting along […]
While our hearts and minds are still with our ancestors, today was a travel day, and being Don’s birthday, we wanted to make it as celebratory as possible =:–) We […]
For the first time in weeks, there is nothing to share of our ancestors other than lots of memories, and boy do we have a head full of those. We’re […]
We had high hopes that we’d be able to find the death record for Arnold Murray. Not sure he died in Kansas, but it seems likely, even though he is […]
We were on such a roll with the Marvins and Murrays that I think we got over confident. Today was Nichols day – Dad’s mother’s side of the family. I […]
Before heading west and leaving Indiana, we had two more short visits we wanted to make. First, a stop off at the Rush County Historical Museum and second, another visit […]
Today, being Sunday, super rainy, with nothing open, we figured we’d catch up on our laundry (which we did), relax, enjoy a bottle of wine and gather our ancestry notes […]
Anything after yesterday we knew would be anticlimactic, so we had low expectations for our Saturday. All morning we spent digesting the discoveries from yesterday and got a very slow […]
Oh, what a glorious day this was! We started off the day venturing into the Rush County Courthouse – County Health Records – to see if we could find anything […]
Whooie, so much rain today — squishy, spongy, muddy. Driving south west from Findlay, OH to Rushville, IN, we stopped off in pouring rain at still more cemeteries. Got to […]
Today was the first day the Hancock Historical Museum was open – lucky us, this was our rainy day, a perfect time to spend indoors. We entered the museum not […]
Maple Grove Cemetery. Who knew two people could spend so much time in a cemetery? There are soooo many Marvins and Hecks buried here. We spent two hours in the […]
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What a great day of discovery. We set out to Fostoria, just north of Findlay, to see if we could find our G4 (great, great great) ancestors. The Kelleys used […]
Today was another long day of driving – leaving North Carolina and heading up over the mountains of West Virginia and into Ohio. It was strange, indeed, to drive into […]
Our first real ancestry day, and what a wonderful day it was. We met up with Georgia Craig Nelson mid-afternoon. Georgia is our 2nd cousin; we share the same great […]
Wash, walk and ancestry prep day. Lucky for us, our two nights were spent in a really beautiful spot in Tennessee.
Even though we didn’t head up into the Great Smokey Mountains, we still encountered a snow storm. We tried to post a short video of Don driving in the snowstorm, […]
Today was a layover day as we moved from just west of Nashville to just east of Nashville. We were not enamored with our Montgomery Bell SP camp site and […]
There are those days on your travels when you just accept the fact that you will be taking time to solve some problem. For us, today was one of those […]