So, I dropped the ball. Because for one year, I was writing a post every Friday about my newest find of the week. And this week? I didn't. I know what I wanted to write about--I found a few records indicating that one of my relatives spent the last years of his life in an [...]
Ok, this one is making me angry. I'll set the scene: I was searching for an ancestor to write about for Amy Johnson Crow's "Namesake" prompt this month, and I eventually decided that it had to be someone on the Merrill side of my family tree. I mean, there's my great-great-grandmother, Celestia Melvina, who was [...]
At the age of 17, my great-grandfather deserted the U.S. Army, packed his belongings into a rucksack and made his way by foot to Lockport, New York. He changed his name to John Gates during a stop in Ohio, married my great-grandmother in Buffalo and raised five children of his own. He didn't tell anyone--not [...]
One year ago today, I published my first post on Applegate Genealogy; it was a story about a found family photo that led me to my great-great-grandparents and sparked my interest in family history. Since then, I've published 167 stories on this blog (well, to be fair, one-third of those are Wordless Wednesday photos), met [...]
Matryoshka dolls--more commonly known as Russian nesting dolls--are sets of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. Matryoshka means "little maiden" or "mother," and the dolls have become a symbol of the babushka, a strong female matriarch and central figure in the family. My grandparents are Polish--not Russian--but my grandmother always had Russian [...]
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