The Heritage Huntress

(Continued from “ The Brosius Family: South Shenango,1862-1863 ”) A widow had to wear hideous black dresses without even a touch of b...

Today would have been my grandfather’s 87 th birthday. Would have been. Last month he passed away, and is at long last back with Grandma...

(Continued from “ The Brosius Family: South Shenango, 1861 .”) The petition of John McGranahan Administrator of the Estate of Ad...

Library of Congress [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Capitol building was a sight, looking strangely like a three-tiered wed...

Ahh, Halloween. All Hallow’s Eve. Celebrated down through the centuries even to today. But how was it celebrated by our ancestors? I can’...

For many years, throughout my Dad’s childhood and continuing into my own, my grandmother’s next-door neighbor was a kind old woman named Mr...

For years I have been unable to trace the WADE branch of my family farther back than my great-great-great-grandfather Joseph WADE, who, acc...