My Genealogy Trails

Greetings!! I'm sorry it has been a while but I have been on the hunt, LOL.  Genealogists always hunt for more information.  And here I am hunting, LOL. The following newspaper article was written in 1843 in the Monticello, NY Republican Watchman and I obtained it from fultonhistory.com  a wonderful FREE newspaper site.  Check it out if you have not already! In the article is mentioned a Capt. B B Parker.  He was my great great grandfather.  He would be forever remembered as "Captain".  I have been trying to find more information about the Lumberland Rifle Company since I found this article.  Unfortunately, without success so far.  But the search will continue until I do or I have completely exhausted all resources. Lumberland was the name of a township in Sullivan County NY.  At the time of this article my Parker ancestors lived in Lumberland Township.  Later, the township would be divided into additional townships an...

Greetings! In 1995 I took a train trip to Idaho to visit my Uncle Harvey's wife "Joey" and my cousins.  I had not seen them since I was a real little girl of about 4 years old.  Uncle Harvey had past about 11 years prior to my visit.  Because it was such a long time since I had seen them I was a bit nervous but excited as well.  It had been over 30 years, would I recognize them? As the train pulled into the station I was watching out the window and sure enough, I did recognize my Aunt and my cousin Terry.  Aunt Joey had not changed one bit and Terry and I could almost be twins except he is a man and I am a woman.  I immediately felt more at ease when seeing them.  Familiar faces always help, LOL. We had a great visit!  I was there for 2 weeks.  We talked about the family a bit.  Aunt Joey told me some stories about my grandmother I had not known and a few about my grandfather.  As we were sitting in the dining room one morning...