By Eilene Lyon Found Photo Project #13 These found photos are not pictures of orphans. They just seem to be stranded in my files with no family home. I believe I have identified the subjects correctly. Some of them have no living descendants. Others, I have tried contacting descendants through Ancestry with no replies or—in... Continue Reading →
Too Early for OSHA
By Eilene Lyon Though my great-grandmother, Clara Ransom Davis (1877-1953), passed down a lot of family history, she made a glaring omission: her own birth family. She wrote a brief story about her father, Robert Ransom, who died when she was six. But she left no tales about her mother or siblings. Everything I know... Continue Reading →
Rascally Rabbit
Week 5: #52 Ancestors – In The Kitchen By Eilene Lyon Aunt Betty (Lyon) Dremann took the time to write her memoirs before she passed. I wish everyone would do that! However, she only wrote to the point where her sons were of the age to begin forming their own memories, as if her own... Continue Reading →