Since I missed a week, I’m going to keep numbering along with the 52 ancestors challenge calendar. This week’s theme is in the census. The first ancestor I thought of when I read that was my ancestor Patrick O’Brien who immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts from County Cork, Ireland. The only documents that I have both…
The 52 Ancestors prompt for this week is Longevity. My first thought was to feature my 2nd great-uncle who was confirmed to have lived 105 years. I never met him despite his living past my high school graduation. The story was that he lived the last 20 years of his life in poor health. An…
The cedar chest from my grandparents’ house had been buried in the garage since my parents moved to their California house. For years I had wanted to open it and it wasn’t until we were preparing the house for sale that the garage was cleaned out enough to even find the box holding it. One of…
This week I signed up for a project called 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. The premise is simple: once a week choose an ancestor and write something about them. It doesn’t have to be a blog post, though that’s what I’ll be doing. It could be a tweet, a notebook entry, a page in a…