<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">My mother worked part-time as a receptionist in an optometrist's office. She likely did not have to because my father had a steady job as a carpenter on the railroad and did other carpentry jobs on...
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">March 11 — Did you have any female ancestors who died young or from tragic or unexpected circumstances? Describe and how did this affect the family.<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet...
March 10 — What role did religion play in your family? How did your female ancestors practice their faith? If they did not, why didn’t they? Did you have any female ancestors who served their churches in some capacity?
Both of my grandmothers...
<div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">March 9 — Take a family document (baptismal certificate, passenger list, naturalization petition, etc.) and write a brief narrative using the information.
This is my grandmother's baptismal...
