The Paris Library A Novel by Janet Skeslien Charles I was so excited to read this book about a library in Paris in 1939. The cover art is absolutely gorgeous. Historical fiction, especially anything to do with WW2, is my go-to genre. I was especially interested to read about a library in Paris after recently…
2020 Year End Review of Finding My Ancestors Blog I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge and we are now in the final week of the challenge!! I decided to start this family history blog back in December of 2018. So it has been two years already! How can that be possible?! This…
Leaving Gibraltar Another interesting story that my Grandfather, Walter Edmund APPS, spoke about in his video interview done on April 4th, 1993 was him recalling his adventurous, although frightening time leaving Gibraltar. In the interview, he was talking about his time spent serving with the First Fortress Company of Royal Engineers, in this case more…
Glider Pilot Regiment I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge this year. Week # 41 the topic is NEWEST. I think my latest discovery is relevant to the topic of newest. Recently, I tried something new, different and exciting which led me to this photo here right down here, which…
I’m participating in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestor Challenge. The writing prompt for this week is “Should Be A Movie.” One absolutely ridiculous story came to mind, but first I have to set the scene. This story came from watching a home video of my Grandfather where he was being interviewed by his two sons…
The writing prompt for Week # 32 of Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors challenge is SMALL. In my mind nothing to do with our family’s history is small, because even the smallest detail can steer you into something so fantastic. Big things often have small beginnings I’ve talked quite a few times about my paternal…
I have a plethora of ideas for this week’s writing prompt! We are in Week # 28 in Amy Johnson Crow’s 52 Ancestors Challenge and this week we are writing about MULTIPLE. I have a few relatives that have had multiple spouses. Quite a few that have had multiple children. Some that have had multiple…
Being that tomorrow is June 6th, I felt like it would be appropriate to repost this, which was one of the very first blog posts I did in January of 2019. Hard to believe I’ve been working at this blog for over a year now! I also did another post on the 75th Anniversary of…
I received an email the other day letting me know that Fold3 is offering free access to ALL of their records in honour of the 75th Anniversary of the end of WWII and for Memorial Day in the USA which is this Monday. Act quickly!! This offer expires on Monday May 25th at 11:59pm ET.…
This week for Amy Johnson-Crow’s 52 Ancestor challenge the writing prompt is Service. This week it also happens to be the birthday of Robert Ramsay Rodger, my husband’s maternal grandfather. He was born on May 6 1912 in East Wemyss, Fife in Scotland. 108 years ago today! So, it seems quite fitting that for this…
