#52Ancestors

I don't remember when I first heard about the "Round Robin" letters but they started before I was born. I don't know the s...

On September 5, 2018 my wife Patti and I joined a small pre-talk reception for a book talk by Steven Pinker hosted by the Commonwealth Club ...

1969 news clipping from Lillian Knaus scrapbook On the 13th of December, 1871, the Rocky Mountain News carried a short paragraph on its fron...

Mom introduced us to and engaged us in cooking at a young age; mostly this was for desserts, but also included some simple main dishes, brea...

During the Great Depression my uncle Harry lived with his parents and extended family which included two siblings, two cousins and aunt, and...

My mother's ancestors came from southern Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden. In each of these lands sisters were left behind, often to car...

 When I was first working on my Swiss ancestry, I asked a genealogist how my G2 grandparents might have met, as they had lived in towns almo...