All My Ancestors

Despite the 7+ hour round-trip, this year Hubbo and I went to the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles to do a little ancestor acknowledgement on Memorial Day. The trip is just long enough to be almost too much for a day trip, but I can’t get comfortable with the idea of staying overnight in a [...]

Today I was reading through the index to the oral histories at the library in the Research Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society. There are lots of categories of oral histories, but I wanted to see what the holdings were for the Germans from Russia. My maternal grandfather’s family immigrated from Russia in [...]

Some things are just too good not to share. One of the joys of working in a library and doing research for others is the entertaining items encountered in old newspapers and other sources. I’m not related to anyone in this story as far as I know, but it begs to be shared. [...]

This is a photo of my great grandmother and grandfather and 9 of their 10 children. Great grandfather George Charley Cooper and great grandmother Sarah (Sally) McLendon Duvall Cooper are seated in front. The tall man on the right end is my great-uncle George Merrimon Cooper, and the woman next to him is [...]

For over 50 years, my Osborne family has been looking for information about Christopher Osborne (c 1732-1789). I have copies of my great Aunt Fannie’s correspondence with her “Cousin Fred” from the 1950s. I’ve been searching almost 20 years myself.
We have a copy of Christopher’s will and we know he died in [...]

About a month ago, Brenda Dayne, of Cast-On:A Podcast for Knitters had a wonderful essay about knitting memory. I had a fleeting moment of thinking this might be about stretchy yarn, but Brenda didn’t disappoint. She talked about the memories that come when she knits–whether it’s what she was doing the last time [...]

I find myself wanting to record some of the stories I’ve heard about and from my family members as well as wanting a place to muse about some of them. This seems to be a way to do that. We’ll see how it goes. I’m still working on getting my info up on the web [...]