Read to the bottom for How to Use this Blog . I have been exploring genealogy since I was little, listening to all the stories told by Aunts Connie and Helena, Cousins Ann and Howie and Maurietta, Uncles Leonard and Arthur. There were m ore dead people in the stories than live ones, and they were lots more fun. This was way before it was anyone's hobby, when I was the only one who was interested. Sneaking into the Archives underage and running around graveyards. I was lost to the present, either reading books about Pilgrims or building stories in my head. Always asking, asking, asking. "How is he related to us? Who is their mother? What was her name, and her name, and her name? " While Aunt Anna said, "I don't want to find out anyone was arrested for stealing sheep." Now I find I know more stories about more people than anyone else. And I have more photos of other people's grandparents than anyone else, thanks to a mother who started taking pictures wh...
I have the prettiest name…21 Rose Avenue. If you add my village, I am even more lovely…Valley Stream. (see Robertson Family - Bessie Spence and Joseph Robertson Descendant Chart, Spence Family - Phoebe Rushton and William Spence Descendant Chart, Rushton Family - Eva Spence and Wilfred Rushton Descendant Chart) I am a really nice house, if I do say so myself. I have a living room and a dining room! My kitchen is big enough for a stove, ice box, a really big sink with hot and cold running water, and a bunch of cupboards. I have a table with drawers that’s big enough to roll out dough and the family to sit around for supper. 1 I’ve got a little bedroom off my kitchen. 2 Upstairs I have 4 bedrooms and an indoor bathroom with a modern bathtub. Plus a big front porch, a yard big enough for a garden, lots of grass, and a garage in the back! 3 Daddy and Frank on my front steps in 1942 I was built in 1926 4 for a big family in a land of small farms. All of us houses were so excited! Almost...