Genealogical Gems

Birthdays Happy birthday to Steven Leroy Peters, Shayna LeeAnn O’Flaherty and John Schlichter. May God grant you all Many Years.    Steven is my fourth cousin once removed. He is descended from my fourth great uncle and Civil War Veteran Benjamin Franklin Vanhorn. Shayna is my third cousin once removed. She is descended from Hugh O’Flaherty, my second great uncle. John is my second cousin once removed. He is descended from my Uncle Reds (Raymond Welsh), my great uncle. Memory Eternal Today is the 71 st anniversary of the passing of Darius James Eckman. I’ve written about him recently in a Tombstone Tuesday prompt. He is my husband’s second great uncle.   Tuesday is the 105 th anniversary of the passing of Albert Eckman. Albert is the half second great uncle of my husband. His mother is the son of my husband’s second great grandmother (Elizabeth Winter) by her first husband (Samuel Eckman).    Jane Ann Way passed away 104 years ago on Wedn...

Amanuensis Monday is a blogging theme for GeneaBloggers which encourages the family historian to transcribe family letters, journals, audiotapes, and other historical artifacts. The letter transcribed here today is another letter from my Aunt - Helen Still Webster. I am going to transcribe exactly as she has written it. My comments will be placed in {} marks. Happy Thanksgiving Sat. Nov. 21, 1992 My dear Jeanne & Glenn, I received your letter and glad you are working on history. That was a cute thank you card. Yes I would like to meet Glenn. {Glenn is my husband. We married 22 August 1992}. It seems I have not seen much of you lately either. At Mary Still funeral you sat with Lloyd {my maternal grandparents}. I do not know where our relatives came from. Well the only real americans are the american Indians and we are allfrom them and foreign countries. If you would go to West Chester courthouse and look up Bing & Way - my father's mother, Still, Rice, Van...