A Tribute for my Father
The Eulogy delivered at my father's funeral on December 8, 2019
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Peter Preble
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
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 reunion was. We started planning shortly after the last reunion…
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 to a common ancestor that arrived in the new world in…
Ancestors
I have been neglecting the blogging exercise that I agreed to participate in during this season of preparation for the feast of the Nativity. I feel like the folks in the Gospel passage from St. Luke this past Sunday. They…
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 – the becoming of an adult in the eyes of…
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 find that you are related to a famous…
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 made my way North West visiting small…
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 was not the Western American Frontier but the frontier of Maine in the…
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 for more than 30 years. We have encountered many…
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 side of our family tree although there are many branches and…