“I fully expect you to say no,” my fellow *NPE friend Bill Griffeth wrote to me in a Twitter message in the fall of 2018. What he expected me to say no to was being interviewed about my NPE story. He knew what an introvert I was. But he knew from his own experience that…
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,…
In exactly 16 days I will be on a plane to Salt Lake City for my fourth RootsTech conference and my third as an Ambassador. Here is what I’ve been doing to get ready: Creating a genealogy research list I’m going out a little early to get some time in at the Family History Library….
In 1926, Mrs. G. J. Wilkins of Atlanta Georgia wrote to the Office of Indian Affairs, “My great-grandfather on my father’s side was a full-blooded Indian with tribal relations with the Cherokees of Georgia.” Mrs. Wilkins was referring to Abraham Helton, known by his family as Young Chicken Chetiganete. He was born in 1843. He…
What would Hattie say? I’ve mentioned Hattie Potter Chase before if you read my earlier blog post, The Shameful Secret of David Edgar Chase. She was left a widow at age 45 in 1900 when her husband, David, put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger in their upstairs hallway while she was eating breakfast…
My grandmother never liked to talk about her father, Charles Comp. When I became interested in our family history when I was 15 years old, I would ask about him when we visited her in Beavercreek, Ohio. She would simply say that when she was 13 he disappeared. And then she would change the subject….