#RootsTech is running a Photo Story Competition and I feel like I could fill up my blog with past and present photos. Here is the latest. This grainy, creased photo could tell a hundred stories. It was 1978. My youngest brother had finally gotten his life together and joined the Air Force. He was stationed in New Jersey…
#RootsTech is running a Photo Story Competition and I feel like I could fill up my blog with past and present photos. I’ll be sharing more, but here is one. My grandmother, Jeanette, always compared herself to her older sister, Merah. She wrote in her journal, “Merah was small and dainty and I was chubby and plain looking….
My great-aunt, Mildred Jeanette Willett February 1904, Boston, Massachusetts (c) Jenny Horner HawranThanks to Wordless Wednesday Blogspot
Fannie Potter abt 1884 It’s nice to know we’ve come a long way in my mother’s family and we have developed into caring, loving people. Our ancestor, Fannie Potter Willett, had none of those qualities, unfortunately. By all accounts, Fannie was a spoiled, self centered woman with a keen sense of entitlement. Her looks matched…