It's a long, long journey

 I have often seen Larkin and Levi Adamson listed as one and the same person, sometimes listed as Larkin Levi Adamson. Both of these men wer...

  I was going to write a blog about my great-great uncle Joseph F. Cody, but as I got researching, I decided that first I wanted to examine ...

 Lucille V. Ryan (or Lucy as it appears that she was called) is my second cousin two times removed. Our common ancestor is Johanna Murphy. S...

Joseph "Joe" F Cody, Jr. was born on the 14th of November in 1870 in Peoria, Illinois. He was the son of Irish immigrants, Joseph ...

This is the story of Etta May Bradley. She was my great-uncle's mother, and she seemed to live an interesting life, to say the least. Sh...

 I knew my great-grandfather, Edward Richard Murphy. I was ten years old when he died. It occurred to me that I was probably the only person...

For a St. Patrick’s Week Challenge, I am writing about my great-great-great-grandmother Mary Alice “Allie” Reade. She is as far back as I ha...