All My Ancestors

This is my brothers and me at the house where our great Aunt Lorene (of bladder training fame) was working as caretaker for an elderly woman in Beaver County, Oklahoma, probably about 1964. Check out the wallpaper in the background.This picture re-appeared out of my grandmother’s things–it was probably one my mom had sent [...]

Remember this?
Yesterday I got the letter saying I wasn’t a blood relative and I wasn’t qualified to have these records.
I am not happy. So, of course, I called ‘em up. I tried being nice, being reasonable, being mad, being loud, being rational, being irrational–nothing worked. They just kept saying someone like the [...]

Through interlibrary loan, I ordered a roll of microfilm from Clark County, Indiana, hoping to find a “local” record of Anne Pamela Green Ball’s death that I’d found in the New York City newspaper.
I haven’t found one yet, but I did find some other information on the family I’ll post in another entry.
Much of the [...]