When teaching genealogy classes, I am always quick to point out to my students that when you look at your tree, you should marvel at what it took to get you here today. My example is John Wickham, my 7th
John Wickham & Bemus Heights
I’m very fortunate to live within 15 minutes of where my 7th GGF and Revolutionary War patriot, John Wickham, was stationed for a time at Fort Montgomery, New York. I’ve written before about visiting there and the surreal experience of
Finding Nancy Jane Wickham Archer
This is my first post in almost 10 months. I haven’t been writing at all or really working on my own genealogy this past year; my last post was about my father’s death and I’d been struggling for some time
And then things change…
Life has a funny way of putting you where you *need* to be versus where you necessarily *want* to be. When we moved to New York from Ohio, my genealogy had not expanded far past the Ohio/Kentucky borders. It had
My Loafer Follow-Up
I was happily informed the other day by my dear friend Sue that one of my blog articles was used as a citation in a recent Crossroads article. The article was Reconstructing a Life from Biographical Fragments: Oliver Dresser, Who