It’s All About the Story

Hello. I am Jo and I am a genealogist. I am other things as well; a wife, mother, grandmother, quilter but under it all I am a genealogist. I would like to share with you how I came to be a genealogist. WHAT MOTIVATED ME I have been fascinated and yes obsessed with genealogy since my first child was born. My family was a broken unit. There was no father in the picture and my mother took myself and my two older brothers, at a young age, across the country putting as much distance as possible between her and her …

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Writing Ancestor Stories Led to HathiTrust For Historical Context

Writing Ancestors Stories Led to HathiTrust for Historical Context Have you ever decided to write an ancestor’s story only to discover you don’t know enough about their historical time? Did you let that stop you? I remember when I was trying to write about my grandmother I found it challenging to “add meat to the bones” of her story. After a great deal of online research, I learned of some unique digitized publications which provided a window into the past; my grandmother’s present. In this post I will share some of those publications with you. HISTORICAL CONTEXT What is Historical …

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