Continuing on my quest to learn all the places my ancestors came from. Updated Post! 1973 names on this list now! The last blog I did the Bosley Family Tree. This post will be on my mother’s side, the Fletcher – Buckwalter Family tree. This part of the family tree...
Updated, now with 1552 names on the list! I’ve been doing a lot of research on Ancestry.com and other sites looking for some hints into my parents’ heritage. I found more than I ever thought possible. My Dad’s name is Bosley. I always figured it was English, but for years...
George Müller was a native German (a Prussian). He was born in Kroppenstaedt on September 27, 1805 and lived almost the entire nineteenth century. George Müller died March 10, 1898 at the age of 92. He saw the great awakening of 1859 which he said “led to the conversion of...
The fun I have on Ancestry.com doesn’t stop at learning about my own heritage, I have also included John’s side. The Dolphin family history has been more challenging. Information in England is a lot different. Maiden names aren’t included in much of the records is just one challenge. When I...
A part of me is a Fletcher (on my mother’s side), and as I have been digging into my past, I found out the Fletchers go back to England a long way. One resource I found, doesn’t go back as far as I have but picks up in 1568. Henry...
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. ~Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953 I guess I could have known if I dug into my past, it would lead to a foreign country…it has actually led to a few. I have JUST started a family tree and...
Fremantle is a hard place for me to get my head around and to describe to others. It reminds me of Annapolis in that there is a harbor and it’s very historic. There really is more to it than that. It has Aboriginal history, it has this whole Navy and...
From CBS NEWS Chicken Came Before the Egg: “Scientific Proof” British scientists claim to have solved one of the great mysteries of life, the universe and everything in it: The chicken came before the egg, they say, and they’re not mincing words. “It had long been suspected that the egg...
