Category: Family Testimony
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Great-Grandma Merle was one of the last two people on this Ahnentafel journey who I actually met. And since I’ve written about her story before, I’ll try to capture some of my memories of what she was like.
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Bertha and John were another couple who were clearly best friends for 50 years. Here’s how I see these funny, interesting people.
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Expanding on the story of John Q. Callin; a man who led a life too quiet to call “dynamic” but too active to call “quiet”!
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I only know the outlines of most of Merilyn’s story – fuzzy outlines, with a few small details. The one thing that looms largest was the worst thing that happened to her.
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Some relatives are so infamous within a family, that their story is unignorable. And yet, because they were unforgivable, you can’t ask about the details.
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If you have an image in your head of the Midwest grandmother, she probably looks a lot like Grandma June.
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The family of George and Polly Callin largely remained in Huron County, OH, when much of the family moved away from Milton Township. Their legacy was inspiring.
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A challenging part of the tree: writing about people I didn’t know, but who living people DID know. Doing the job properly without being annoying – that’s the challenge!
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More sentiment than research this week – but that just goes to show how much harder it is to document feelings about someone.
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What we know is not always the truth, but what we remember can be, if we are careful about the way we tell the story. Minds and memories are tricky things.
Mightier Acorns 