I mean, really belated. It's already the end of March and my main focus this year has been undermining our fascist government. ✌️ Oh, and I changed positions at work at the end of last August, and that has significantly amped up my workload, but I like it. Fortunately for me, I've accomplished ...
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Great-Grandparents: The Bartlett-Galfre Side
Today, we're looking at my fourth and final set of great-grandparents. As far as my maternal side goes, these are the folks I know the most about, as well as the Italian side I'm researching most actively. Even though I have dozens of Mayflower lines, one of the lines from this side of the family ...
Great-Grandparents: The Feola-Burrell Side
Now we're going to look at what is, perhaps, the most "controversial" side of my family. For my maternal grandfather's entire life, we believed his father was Herbert Benjamin Haley, Sr. of Brockton, Plymouth, Massachusetts. However, we also knew it was possible that his father was actually his ...
Great-Grandparents: The Shaw-Blake Side
I started a series of posts an embarrassingly long time ago to talk about my 4 sets of great-grandparents, and I'm finally revisiting and finishing that series. This week, we're looking at my paternal grandmother's ancestors and, also, my first revision to my ancestry thanks to the relentless ...
2024 Plans and More
We are well into 2024 and it has already been a little bit of an adventure! My son got his driver's license which activated Worried Mom Mode. But he seems to be doing just fine, driving himself to and from work, and wherever else he pleases. We had an awful cold snap and treacherous snow early in ...
December Journal
Here is my belated look back at December 2023. It was a month of anticipation for a number of reasons – all of our birthdays, anniversary, holidays, the recall election… There was so much going on, that December went by in that fast-slow way a time full of waiting for big events does. We had our ...