Are You Intensely Curious?
Are You Intensely Curious?
Like most Americans, I studied the American Revolution in Elementary School, maybe a little in High School. And in college, I needed one History class so I took History of the American Revolution. And most of the maps looked something…
A thief in the family tree is not unexpected because most of the family is from Ireland and the Potato Famine was notorious for creating thieves out of starving people. Little did I know that many of the American colonies…
Abner Fish is my 3rd-great-grandfather. There are strong rumors around the internet about who his parents are but a significant lack of facts. Bernd and I took a research class this past week in Washington, DC to learn how to…
-After William McGee returned home from duty in the Civil War, he moved his family to High Forest Township, Minnesota, around 1866. High Forest is the township immediately south of Rochester City. In 1883, John Carney McGee and two of…
Colonial patriots may have seen the end of the war in sight if they could just dislodge the British from the South. Count Pulaski had left General George Washington’s side to create the first calvary that was called Pulaski’s Legion…