by Brandy Heineman | Feb 28, 2014 | Blog, Family History
I couldn’t let the day pass without heralding the wedding of my great-great grandparents, Florence Van Pelt and Jesse Bartoo, who married on February 28, 1914—one hundred years ago today! According to Betty A. Bertrand’s genealogy, “Sam’s...
by Brandy Heineman | Jan 17, 2014 | Blog, Family History
Occasionally I have wondered if anti-German sentiment during and between the World Wars impacted my Heinemanns. They arrived in 1851–children who became old men in the United States. When the world stage heated up, did they get burned? It’s hard to imagine...
by Brandy Heineman | Dec 10, 2013 | Blog, Everything Else
Today I’m hosting author Sydney Avey, whose novel The Sheep Walker’s Daughter (HopeSprings Books) came out on December 3, 2013. A Korean War widow’s difficult mother dies before revealing the identity of Dee’s father. As Dee sorts through what little her...
by Brandy Heineman | Nov 5, 2013 | Blog, Family History
One Viking woman. One God. One legendary journey to North America. In the tenth century, when pagan holy women rule the Viking lands, Gudrid turns her back on her training as a seeress to embrace Christianity. Clinging to her faith, she joins her husband, Finn, on a...
by Brandy Heineman | Nov 2, 2013 | Blog, Family History
Do you have that one ancestor who doesn’t seem to have much of a story? The one who stayed in one locale for a lifetime. The one whose branch of your tree is eclipsed by more-fascinating parents or children. The one who just isn’t very interesting. I...
by Brandy Heineman | Oct 29, 2013 | Blog, Family History
I picked up this great postcard in an antique store only 900 miles or so from its subject. A modern-day DMV office,the courthouse in Corning was built in 1903. Steuben county NY is a key location to my family history and research. There are fantastic online resources...
