My grandmother, Jeanette Shrum Willett, left us a wonderful handwritten manuscript of her life which she wrote in the mid-1980s. She was born August 4, 1897, in Bloomington, Indiana, and died March 3, 1988, in Salem, Massachusetts. I have been transcribing her manuscript here. You can start from the beginning with Part 1. The grammar,…
Now that I’ve had some time to digest the fun of RootsTech, I’ve started going through my playlist and have been watching at least one session every day. I’m on an Irish research streak right now and some of you know that Irish research is something completely new to me (and makes me a little…
RootsTech will be all virtual and FREE again beginning March 3, 2022. Registration is now open by visiting here. There are over 1,500 sessions being offered across nine categories. You can even search by language! Planners of RootsTech are saying that they want to take connecting with other participants to the next level this year,…
History and Location Located on the grounds of Poquonock School, 1760 Poquonock Ave, Windsor, CT 06095. Poquonock School is a K-2 school. The monument was originally dedicated in 1954 to recognize the men from the Poquonock section of Windsor who lost their lives in World War II and the Korean Conflict. The plaque on…
My grandmother, Jeanette Shrum Willett, left us a wonderful handwritten manuscript of her life which she wrote in the mid-1980s. She was born August 4, 1897, in Bloomington, Indiana, and died March 3, 1988, in Salem, Massachusetts. I have been transcribing her manuscript here. You can start from the beginning with Part 1. My brother…
Every genealogist has some kind of specialty. It might be Civil War history, Eastern European ancestry, or even DNA. I’ve met a lot of fellow genealogists during my 30 years of researching my family history. But meeting Nathan Dylan Goodwin at RootsTech a few years ago felt like an entirely different thing. Nathan had broken into the…