The Family Shrub
Adventures in GenealogyMy New Year Resolution
I am a goodreads.com user. I always have a resolution for how many books I will read each year and last year I had great intentions. 2015 was 24 books. I can read two books a month right? I failed. I read 17. FAILED. I wasn't even kind of close so that I could...
The Brick Wall is cracking!
There are a few brick walls in my tree that drive me a little nuts. One of them being good old Alexander Brown...where I get my surname. One of the worst is on my husband Andrew's side though, where he gets HIS surname: James A. Nelson. I believe the A to...
Scared to Death
One of the interesting things about doing genealogy is discovering "cause of death". I know it sounds a little morbid, but what's interesting is how much has changed over such a short time in terms of actually assigning a cause. Science is better. Medicine is...
A forgotten murder/suicide in Downtown Indy
So, one of my favorite things about doing genealogy is coming upon these wild stories in families that people knew nothing about. A lot of times horrible things will happen and people don't want to talk about them and they get swept under the rug. These stories get...