Category: Historical Events
Ancestors who were part of major historical events.
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When we look back at the lives our ancestors led, how much do we project our lives onto theirs? How do they compare? And how much of that comparison holds up to scrutiny?
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Welcome to a wrap-up/overview of the previous eight weeks! What interesting patterns do we see in each generation? Let’s compare them!
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Sometimes the memories we have don’t carry the history of the people that made them. I got to meet the youngest of my Great-Grandparents before she died, but it would be years before I learned her story.
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Sometimes progress feels like a step backward. But it is still a step in the right direction.
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Alfred was a friendly, funny man, according to the impressions I inherited. But he is also an entry point into a deeper vein of history.
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History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes. And so did my ancestor, whose frustration with the outcome of the Civil War was captured in his poetry.
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Another installment of the Callin families who stayed in Milton Township, Ohio, after the first generation of settlers (James and John) died.
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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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I didn’t think I had much to add to his story, but there always seems to be more to say if you just dig down a little bit.
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Making assumptions and generalizations about who “belongs” is a mistake as old as America itself. Our own history shows that arguments warning of seemingly permanent, intolerable differences between groups of people should not be treated with the weight that people give them.
Mightier Acorns 