Voyages through family and local history
Discovering how my great-great grandfather George Pleau became a citizen was like putting together a jigsaw puzzle from different clues in records, historical facts, a newspaper article and one key find via FamilySearch Full Text Search. Below seems to be the basics of how George (and Emma, by virtue of their marriage) became a United [ ]
One of the hardest things to find, particularly as a new genealogist, is the home village of your Eastern European ancestors. I was fortunate to find exactly when and from where my Lithuanian Valeks arrived in the U.S. over the course of many years. My Polish Markoskis, however, were a different story…until now, when FamilySearch [ ]
In my first post about my second great-grandparents Adam and Elisabeth Valek, I listed who I believe were all their children. This was mainly based on a short 1943 notice in The [Riverhead, NY] County Review about the distribution of Adam s estate. This was a huge piece of information for a hard-to-research Lithuanian family! As [ ]
In 2015, I wrote about how my grandfather and great-grandmother fared after the 1932 death of my great-grandfather George Edmund Pleau. Since that time, I’ve learned so much more about Bertha’s and young George’s lives! (Thank you, newspapers!) So let me color in the picture a little better. Bertha and George returned to Lynn about [ ]
In recognition of those who have served our country in the military, Heather Wilkinson Rojo of the Nutfield Genealogy blog started the Honor Roll Project. It’s an opportunity to publicly document the names on military memorials around the world, thus making them easily searchable on the internet for people who are looking for them! This [ ]
Did you ever go down the rabbit hole of an internet search and discover something pretty fascinating? This is exactly what happened as I stumbled upon what I’m about to write the fact that Norwalk, Connecticut once had a semi-professional football team! As I researched this fact, I came across an even deeper story. [ ]
As 2023 comes to a close, so does my year of #12Ancestors, the monthly version of #52Ancestors. This month, I was compelled to choose the theme of “Cousins”, and in that vein I am dedicating this particular post to the memory of my third cousin, Ronald Scott Colomy, who just passed away this month. Ron [ ]
For this month’s #12Ancestors theme, I’ve chosen “War and Peace”. I’ve had a number of military ancestors, but my most recent military discovery is my eighth great-grandfather, Simon Pleau dit LaFleur, the first Pleau in North America who experienced both war and peace. Of course, I didn’t just discover Simon; I knew he was part [ ]
In recognition of those who have served our country in the military, Heather Wilkinson Rojo of the Nutfield Genealogy blog started the Honor Roll Project. It’s an opportunity to publicly document the names on military memorials around the world, thus making them easily searchable on the internet for people who are looking for them! This [ ]
I’ve been blogging for over nine years now, so I’ve written about many of my ancestors and their families. There is still a lot to learn about all of them! However, I find myself being called back to certain people in my research. One is my great-grandmother, Bertha (Colomy)(French)(Spratt) Pleau. I think I inherited some [ ]