by Brandy Heineman | Oct 26, 2013 | Blog, Family History
For a while, Anna Elizabeth Keller Rude Witter’s father was a brick wall in my search. Fairly early in my genealogical quest, The Kellers of Hamilton Township: A Study in Democracy by David Henry Keller, M.D. became an important find for me, because it gave me...
by Brandy Heineman | Oct 8, 2013 | Blog, Family History
I’ve written about my great-grandmother Orilla Wells Bergreen; her father Frank J Wells (1871-?) has been a bit of a challenge over the years. When the well of information dries up, one strategy is to move across the branches with a lateral search to see if a...
by Brandy Heineman | Sep 24, 2013 | Blog, Family History
If family history is about storytelling, then our ancestors are the characters. Each and every one is a blank, a mystery. Sometimes one small scrap of information forms the basis of my entire understanding of who that ancestor was as a person. My...
by Brandy Heineman | Sep 10, 2013 | Blog, Family History
“Mother’s Two Brothers” Part 1 about Roscoe Webb can be found here, and Part 2 about James Webb can be found here.The two “Mother” candidates were Roscoe and James Webb’s two sisters, Alice and Mary. I looked up Alice’s...
by Brandy Heineman | Sep 3, 2013 | Blog, Family History
My ancestral home, or one of them anyway, is being torn down. It might have already been demolished. I never lived there; other than my own grandfather, I never knew the people who did. When distant relatives wax sentimental about their memories (via Facebook), I am...
by Brandy Heineman | Aug 27, 2013 | Blog, Family History
“Mother’s Two Brothers” Part 1 can be found here. Registers of Enlistment for the United States Army provide some details of James W. Webb’s military career. He enlisted on September 9, 1897 at Nashville Tennessee. His birthplace was Campbell...
