Genealogical Gems

Happy birthday wishes today go out to Denise O'Flaherty Coblentz and Wendy Mellinger Miley!    

This week, my family both celebrates and remembers. Birthdays Happy birthday this week to my sister, Noreen! Hope your birthday is a … HOOT! Today is our cousin Sue Still’s birthday as well. May God grant you both Many Years.    Memory Eternal Ten years ago today my sister (technically hubby’s sister) Wilma Lee Eckman LeMon passed. She was only 52 when she passed. She was the daughter of Frank Eckman and Dorothy Deyoe and the wife of William LeMon. They have three children.  She was a great friend, one of a very few I feel safe confiding in. She is deeply missed. She is pictured at left here with Dad (her father, Frank, that is). The picture was taken in my parents' front yard during our wedding reception in 1992. Today we also remember my husband’s 4 th great grandmother, Catherine Bumberger Herr. She passed 135 years ago at the age of 88. Catherine was the daughter of Michael Bumberger and Elizabeth Hawk. She married David Herr in 1808 and they had seven...

March is Women's History Month and as such Geneabloggers' prompt today is: How did they meet? You’ve documented marriages, now, go back a bit. Do you know the story of how your parents met? Your grandparents? My paternal grandparents (Joseph & Anna Kurenda Ruczhak) met at school. Baba was a year older than Gigi and her command of English was better. He spoke only Ukrainian in the home. So, the teacher at the school asked her to help him learn English. I have no clue how my mom's parents met. I'm not sure I ever heard that story. My parents (Joseph & Barbara Still Ruczhak) met at a dance. Mom was there with her cousin Denise O'Flaherty (Coblentz) and Daddy was with some friends. Daddy and Aunt Denise (and her husband Ray Coblentz) went to school together. They attended Horace Scott HS in Coatesville. Daddy saw mom at the dance and asked Aunt (really a cousin btw but she's mom and dad's age so ...) Denise to introduce them!