All posts in August 2022

In researching Elizabeth Garraux’s story, I sent an email to a person who had posted several pieces of information on Ancestry.com in a Garraux family tree. That chance email to a generic login ended up getting a response from Elizabeth’s great-great granddaughter, also named Elizabeth. She had been actively researching the family and fleshing out…

I have worked with a lot of young women who have babies and young children, and, having raised three children of my own, and watching my children raise their children, I know of the challenges and logistics of a busy household. Can you imagine that in 1867, shortly after the end of the Civil War,…