by Brandy Heineman | Jul 4, 2014 | Blog, Family History
Historical Recipes and the Women Who Shared Them This cookbook was published in 1909 and we’re exploring the recipes and the lives of the women who submitted them. (Want to know more? Read the intro here or the previous entry here.) Please remember to use 2014...
by Brandy Heineman | Jun 27, 2014 | Blog, Family History
Welcome to Family Recipe Friday: the West Virginia Wesleyan College Club Cook Book Edition! This cookbook was published in 1909 and we’re exploring the recipes and the lives of the women who submitted them. (Want to know more? Read the intro here.) Please...
by Brandy Heineman | Jun 19, 2014 | Blog, Family History
It’s Treasure Chest Thursday, and I have a treasure to share. It started with a Mother’s Day trip to the antique market. As my mother, sisters and I weaved in and out of the consignment booths, oohing and ahhing over old-fashioned serving trays and Coca...
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 | 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...
