I have been working almost frantically trying to catch up on my genealogy research that I have missed since we have been working an enormou...

  My great-great grandmother was Sarah Jane Bailey. She lived in Hamblen County, Tennessee in the mid 1800's. She met and married my gre...

Image Credit: Louis Jamot As I get closer to the declining years of my life the subject of death creeps into my mind. It is more than the de...

  The year 2020 started off normally like any other. At least, that's how it was for me. Within two months of the beginning of the year ...

One has to be ready to receive a new relative to their family tree just like a newborn child. All of the excitement is there because they ar...

It has been four years since I last visited La Fontaine, Indiana for the annual Missisinawa War of 1812 Re-enactment weekend.  It is...

My cousin, his wife, and I spent the day driving around in the Cherokee National Forest.  We came upon The Hiwassee Meeting House. A...

Sarah Jane Bailey Smith and her granddaughter Rachel I have been trying to find confirmation that I am the great-great granddaughter of ...

I came across this video today and it brought back memories of things that have been said to me over the years.  It is not always by stra...

Donna, Dad, and Me My father lost the fight in the DNA test war, but won by being a great dad for my sister.  After all, he is the o...