All My Ancestors

I guess they are amigos. I can’t think of another reason to have their picture taken together.
I don’t think they are brothers, though they do appear to have the same seamstress. And maybe they are brothers, though I don’t think they look alike.
On the reverse is written “Uncle John Unruh left.” [...]

About 10 years ago, I worked with a woman who would tell me about her son-in-law every time I mentioned my then teen-aged son’s band. Her son-in-law lived in NYC and was a professional musician. I don’t think she intended it as a competition, but it sort of felt like one every time [...]

Here in Oklahoma, we’ve heard a great deal about the “time capsule” of the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that was buried at Oklahoma’s semi-centennial in 1957. There have been lots of news stories, both local and national. There’s a website devoted to the car.
Today I was at work and one of our regulars came [...]

When it appeared in my “Bloglines” a second time, I went back to read the comments posted at Simply Recipes in response to an entry entitled Rendering Bacon Fat. There were lots of questions about whether it has to be refrigerated and how long it will keep. What really surprises me is that [...]

Today I received this in the mail. Remember I posted about this great-grandmother who some sources say died in St. Louis. I still don’t know if this is she, but this column is from the St. Louis Post, from 22 January 1897, p. 3. St. Louis Public Library sent an [...]

Today I was reading Kimberley Powell’s posting of the same title.
My first thought goes to the irksome Christopher Osborne. He’s the one that I can’t get beyond. He may be my immigrant ancestor, but I can’t find his origins so I don’t know for sure. I’ve written about him before, including what [...]