A Tribute for my Father
The Eulogy delivered at my father's funeral on December 8, 2019
Tag: Family
A Special Word of Thanks
Putting together an event such as a family reunion is never just the work of one person. Many hands make the event as great as I thought our most recent reunio...
English Separatists and My Family
If you have been following these pages for any length of time, you know that my family is heavily involved in family research. We can trace our ancestors back ...
Mazel Tov ~ Reflections from A Bar Mitzvah
If you are like me, you have only heard or read about the Jewish custom of Bar Mitzvah. I had an intellectual knowledge of what it was all about –...
Alexander Walter Johnston, an Ordinary Guy
If you are a follower of these pages you know that I have been engaged in family research for some time. It is always fun in this type of research, when you fi...
Family Research Tour ~ Maine
At the time of this writing I am in Machias Maine on the last leg of my three day family research trip. I began this journey on Tuesday in York and have slowly...
The Preble Massacre
There is no doubt that life on the frontier was difficult. The ability to survive the harsh conditions meant the difference between life and death, and this wa...
The Legend of Handkerchief Moody
I have been engaged in family research for many years. My brothers and I set out on this time of discovery and it has turned into an on again off again affair ...
William Henry Preble
For the last 20 years or so, my brothers and I have been involved in researching our family heritage. We have spent most of that time researching the Preble si...