Marcella (Mintkiewicz) Witkowski & daughter, Agnes (Witkowski) Tarnowski Marcella (Mintkiewicz) Witkowski is my great-great-great-grandmother, and we're related solely on my maternal line; if you trace back from my mother to my grandmother to Grandma Hattie to Grandma Mary, you'll find Marcella at the top. She was born on January 2, 1855 in Poland, the daughter [...]
You can tell a lot about a person by the house they’re sorted into at Hogwarts, or so I've been told. Back in December, I sorted my family members--Gramps, Grandma, Mom and Aunt Holly--into Ravenclaw, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Slytherin, respectively, and I've decided to sort the previous generation of Kuznicki's and Zielinski's this month. There's [...]
Left to Right: Gramps, Aunt Holly, Mom & Grandma, 1993 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 [...]
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 [...]
Wuerstle's Tavern is often at the center of my grandfather's story. Gramps was having a drink at the bar when John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960; when President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963; when Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot and killed in 1968; and when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in [...]
Applegate Genealogy 
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