I grew up in the Charlotte area and am an alumna of UNC-Chapel Hill (go heels!). In addition to my professional work, I have a range of personal research experience, specializing in breaking down “brick walls” and searching immigration records across the Atlantic.
You can tell a lot about a person by the house they’re sorted into at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I grew up in the 1990s and, unsurprisingly, some of the first books that I fell in love with were the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. My mom’s family agreed to take the … More Sorting My Family into Hogwarts Houses
Isabelle Mamie (Smith) Cole
Every year until I was in high school, my family would make the twelve-hour drive to Buffalo, New York to visit my maternal grandparents, Tom and Janice (Zielinski) Kuznicki. We would stay for a week or two at a time, and my sister and I would beg my grandmother to tell us stories the entire … More Janice & Joyce
The holiday season is one of my favorite times of the year, and I have many fond memories of Christmas growing up: there’s the year I received a magenta bicycle with shimmery tassels and beads on the tire spokes; the year I tried to make a new cookie recipe every day of December; and the … More A New Home for Christmas
This week’s 52 Ancestors prompt is “Winter,” and it immediately reminded me of a photo I received from a Bond family cousin years ago. In the photo, the ground is covered in a blanket of snow, and wagon tracks and horses’ hoof prints lead to a white farmhouse down the road. The photo is titled, … More Meet Effie & George
