The Family Shrub
Adventures in GenealogyO Cannelburg, O Cannelburg, How Lovely are Thy Jails
I have a friend who is very Irish. She's got the white skin, the red hair, grandparents named Patrick and Bridget...everything. But there are a few branches on her mother's side that are German...very German. These include generations of people ALL named Emil. I...
Arni’s Couldn’t Solve This Mystery
I just started a new job. While I am excited to have a regularly paying gig, it really does cut into my exciting new life of genealogy-traveling. What DOES excite me, is that I have a teacher's schedule and I have a decent amount of time off which allows me to get...
The Eels accompanied me to Rushville
This has been a rough week. I have been sick. I actually did start to get better, and then went ahead and got sick again a few days later. During one of my healthier days this week I decided to take a little trip to Rush County to see if I could find some of...
Recent Americans
I have been helping the aunt of a friend of mine sort out her genealogy material. It has been interesting to talk with her (and my friend) about their family because their relations came over to America much more recently than my own. They are some serious Irish. ...