charley jones family
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Charley Jones, Born October 15th

Amy Johnson Crow at No Story Too Small gave us a new 52 Ancestors challenge for 2015. Each week, we have a different theme about which to write. It’s quite the challenge, but I love meeting it and reading how everyone interprets each week. Week four is “closest to your birthday.”   Discovering an ancestor who has a…

Charles Daniel Essler 1848-1914
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52 Ancestors #9: Divorce drama of Charles D. Essler

At the end of the hallway at my parent’s house hang portraits of my dad’s great-grandmother, Isabelle LeMaitre, and her 2nd husband, Walter Seaver. Notice I didn’t say my dad’s great-grandparents. Walter, although loved by Isabelle, wasn’t our blood relation. Of her three husbands, she loved him best. My dad’s great-grandfather, Charles Daniel Essler, was…

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #6 Marion Veronica Essler
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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: #6 Marion Veronica Essler

One thing I find most frustrating about being relatively young and tracing family history is that I don’t hold much of the actual history in my own memory.  Someday I will, I suppose.  Now, however, I rely a lot on older relatives and old books that have bits and pieces of the puzzle. Unfortunately, I’m…