Posted by in 52ancestors, DellaVecchia, Witherwax Last year for 52 ancestors there was a post about unusual or Favorite names and I wrote about Bezaleel Wood. When looking at my family and the names none of them seem particularly unusual. Maybe that is because my first name is Chiara. It is a family name, as I am named after my grandmother, who…Read more »
Posted by in 52ancestors, Beardsley, Clinton County, NY, New York Research Well, it is onto week 2 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestor’s Challenge. As soon as I heard the prompt for this week of challenge, I kind of knew what I wanted to talk about. It wasn’t necessarily an ancestor but the Challenge of Researching in a particular time and place. For me that place is the…Read more »
Posted by in 52ancestors, Norway, Osborne Well, let’s hope I complete more of 2019 than I did for 2018. So the goal is more than 13. Wish me luck. Here we go Week 1 – the prompt FIRST…For this I decided to concentrate on my husband’s family and his Norwegian Great-Great Grandfather Neils Osborne. I always thought the Osborne was Irish…Read more »
Posted by in 52ancestors, Clinton County, NY, Uncategorized, Witherwax I am way behind on this project but hope to get moving on it again. This is Week 13. The prompt was the old homestead. My grandparents bought this farm in the early 1960s. It is not the house my Mom was raised in. They owned a farm in Harkness before this. This is the…Read more »
Posted by in 52ancestors, Beardsley, Clinton County, NY, Daughters of the American Revolution, Uncategorized Growing up I thought I had been to almost every cemetery in Plattsburgh and Peru. Nope not even close. In 2016, while awaiting my applications approval from the Daughters of the American Revolution, I joined their Facebook Group and I learned about supplemental applications for other patriots you descend from. One of the tips was…Read more »
Posted by in 52ancestors, DellaVecchia, Witherwax There are families who stay in their homes for generations upon generations, but not mine. Growing up my grandparents had a farm in Peru, NY but they were the first family to live there. My grandfather’s family had a farm that their family was on for over 100 years and then his family decided to…Read more »
Posted by in 52ancestors, Clinton County, NY, Stewart What is Misfortune? Misfortune can be defined as bad luck or an unfortunate condition or event. Using this definition I had a couple of people come to mind. My favorite ancestor Dr. Sarah Beardsley who died at 39, tragically young. The more I got to thinking I thought of my Great Grandfather, Charles Edward Stewart.…Read more »
