SHERMAN AND ALBERTI HISTORIES

Uncle Larry, My Dad, and the ‘Rooster’ The ‘rooster story’ came to me piecemeal when I was ten years old, riding with Uncle Larry in his...

My father had five brothers and one sister that have all passed on now. I’ve always wondered what their lives were like living during...

Danny L. Jorgenson has done the most definitive studies of my sixth great grandfather on my father’s side, Alpheus Cutler. At the...

Cassius Sherman stepped from his cabin door January 7, 1873 and was greeted with a soft wind that held the promise of an early spring. ...

Megan’s great Christmas blog, which included Grandma Maude’s story of the uninvited Christmas guest, prompted me to see if I had any more...

I recently spent a few hours listening to my grandmother and her siblings recount stories of their childhoods. Seated around a coffee...

Sharon Lee Sherman was born October 24, 1938, the same week that Orson Welles caused panic in the U.S. when he broadcast a realistic...

Unless you were abandoned and raised by wolves you can probably name the people who influenced you the most in your childhood. Those...

Me standing in front of the big maple tree in our front yard - the neighbors grapevines behind me I Googled and Zillowed a street view of...

At 4:45 on the afternoon of July 6, 1946 my father stalled the engine of his plane and started a spin move above a crowd of thousands at...

The first entry is June 14, 1940 Questions multiply like Catholic rabbits when I try to puzzle some of my family history out. I’ve...

As you can see from the two previous blogs the ancestry of Albert (o) Anatole Alberti is still being discovered by the meticulous...

There are a lot of unanswered questions about my parents that I had hoped to find in the pile of letters I’ve been reading. I find...

During a span of 200 years, five generations of my Sherman ancestors remained in the Suffolk area of England. If one of them had decided...

I try to imagine what life looked like through the eyes of my Puritan ancestors in New England. I’m not happy with twenty- first century...

Tracking Samuel Sherman, my 10th great grandfather, through the New England wilderness has been difficult. Fortunately, he was prominent...

Looking into my family history was never intended to reach beyond my great grand parents. In the box that my three sisters delivered to...

Researching my family history in England would have been impossible without the internet, the wealth of records kept in the Parish...