
Emmett Leonard Benjamin, Sr., (2nd row, 5th from the left), c. 1920 // Brooks Locomotive Works, Dunkirk, New York
If you want to get technical about it, I'm not actually related to the Niedbalski family of Dunkirk, New York. Aunt Rita is my great-grandmother's sister's husband's sister (say that one five times fast!), but she's always been a part of the Kuznicki clan. And because she never had any children of her own, she [...]
I've never been to a family reunion, but a few weeks ago, I found a copy of a newspaper article about a Father's Day family reunion held in 1945. It's a story from the almost-but-not-quite-related side of my family tree; my great-grandmother's sister's husband's sister never had any children, but she helped to raise my [...]