Be You Blithe and Bonny

It is sadly true—I have finally looked into my Southern ancestry and found that my great-great-great grandfather James Whittington “owned” ...

A couple years ago I wrote about looking for my husband’s great-great grandmother Jemima Brown. We have found several more interesting thin...

My great-great-great grandmother Mirinda Piper was born in July 1840 in southern Illinois and moved with her family to Kentucky and many o...

Here is an excerpt from Mirinda Piper Andrews’ memoirs from 1849 through 1851. I inherited a typed copy of these memoirs from my father, who...

Julia Esalina Palmer Barnes saved four letters written by her sister, Caroline Jane Palmer Alderman, from Ohio to her in New York where she...

Among the letters Julia Esalina Palmer handed down in her family were four written to her by her sister, Caroline Jane Palmer Alderman, fro...