The Most Boring Courthouse in America
In general, courthouses are not exciting places. Stately, maybe. Some are even ornate. But unless the murder trial of the decade is being tried, courthouses are not usually considered exciting.…
Are you a second or third generation genealogist? So are we!
We’ve been immersed in the genealogy world since childhood. Our family vacations often revolved around cemeteries and long lost relatives. Our weekends involved scrolling through microfilm and library archives.
Luckily, we came away relatively normal and with some interesting memories to share about what it was like “growing up genealogy.”
The Story of Dilleys Road
Did you ever wonder how some roads get their names? Many of them are named after the people who lived on them, building their homes and their lives on the…
My Blue Ribbon 4-H Project
When I was a kid, I joined Brownies. No, not a cooking class. This was the precursor to Girl Scouts. All the other girls in my class were joining, so…
The Problem with Traffic Circles
When I was a kid, our first genealogy vacation was to eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania in search of our Dilley ancestors. We found them too, while "Cemetery Hunting," but…
Cemetery Hunting
"Honey, where should we go on our next family road trip?" "Let's go out east. There are so many old cemeteries we can visit!" Being the child of amateur genealogists,…