Tag Archives: genealogy

The Girls in the Boat

Posted on October 1, 2024 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. I’ve posted before about estate planning for authors here. Part of that plan, for me, anyway, included putting a couple of bequests in my will to protect material I’ve been hoarding for years. After I’m … Continue reading →

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Stephen Steenrod, Veteran

Posted on November 2, 2023 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, once again deeply engrossed in genealogical research. Veterans’ Day isn’t until next week, but this is my day to blog, so here, in honor of all veterans, I offer the story of a veteran of … Continue reading →

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The Mystery of Aunt Carrie’s Boardinghouse

Posted on September 1, 2023 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today sharing another of my family history mysteries. Warning: this is a long post! Recently, the land that went out of my mother’s family back in 1958 and was thereafter abandoned until it became completely … Continue reading →

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How Many Milch Cows?

Posted on March 2, 2023 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, once again deeply engrossed in genealogical research. Now that I have the time to explore Ancestry.com more thoroughly, I’m discovering wonderful treasure troves of useless information. A big time-waster? Probably, but to my mind it’s … Continue reading →

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The Search for Rosanna C.

Posted on December 1, 2022 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, once again ecstatic to have solved a genealogical mystery. For a long time, two big questions about my family tree have gone unanswered. I was frustrated by my inability to find any source for the … Continue reading →

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The Mystery of Miron Gonzalous Hornbeck

Posted on August 1, 2022 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. One of the nice things about being semi-retired is having the time to work at solving some of the mysteries hanging on my family tree. Since I’m not famous enough to be on Finding Your … Continue reading →

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The 1950 Census is Out

Posted on April 18, 2022 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. As regular readers of this blog know, I’m a genealogy buff, so I was eagerly anticipating the April 1 release of the U. S. census taken in 1950. I didn’t expect to learn too much … Continue reading →

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Exploring My Ancestors

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Vaughn C. Hardacker

Vaughn Hardacker here. In 2009 I was laid off by the high tech firm I worked for in Massachusetts (my seventh job in nine years–I left none of them voluntarily) and made the decision to leave New Hampshire and return … Continue reading →

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