A Family Tapestry

Remember back last month, when I was wondering how to find Thirza — that woman whose abandoned family photographs I found in a northern Ca...

Granted, not every obituary contains as much detail as the one we read yesterday for Thirza Browne Cole, the woman whose photographs I fou...

Among genealogical researchers, a well-written obituary, once found, may be considered a blessing. Not only does the article contain the es...

An indispensable tool of the genealogist's trade is the obituary — as long as it is, hopefully, the micro-biography we expect it to be....

Bit by bit, we're working our way through the hundred-plus year old photograph collection of a woman named Thirza Browne Cole. Though I...

Wishing you a peaceful and encouraging Resurrection Day today...

Spring has sprung on us suddenly, here in "sunny" California. We've been plunged from cloudy and — thankfully —rainy weather ...