My Genealogy Trails

Greetings!! Once again reading through old newspapers has helped me with a brick wall.  This time I was at nyhistoricnewspapers.org  I was just doing a general search for my great grandfather, George W Parker when I came across an email regarding him going to a funeral with his wife Ruth.  I did not recognize the name of the person who had died at first.  But then it hit me, that was Ruth's grandmother!!  Meaning that would have been my third great grandmother on Ruth's line!! I had not researched Ruth's line all that much yet but had done some work on it.  As I sat staring at the article the pieces began to fall into place.  Since then I have also been able to add in my fourth great grandparents as well. Never under-estimate the information you can find in old newspapers!!  It is amazing to me what I have found and I continue to find things.  I go back to the newspapers time and time again and run new searches.  Yes, I often find ...

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...