What if a fortune teller told you there was a fortune buried on your land? Would you dig up your land in search of it? That’s how my family, the Coppenbargers, figure into this strange tale of a fortune teller who… …told the Coppenbargers there was vast wealth buried on their land …said that he could tell who murdered the German family who was found hung in a tree a few months earlier …and stole the heart of the wife of the man he was employed by. What a crazy story… and I guess it’s true. I don’t know exactly...
I am catching up with the Sharing Memories prompts found at Olive Tree Genealogy. Week 1 was titled “Kindergarten Days.” My Kindergarten Photo This is my ‘official’ kindergarten photo. My sister and brother both have similar ones.When I went to my mom’s last weekend to scan photos, I was specifically looking for this photo to blog about kindergarten. I thought it was my ‘first day of kindergarten’ picture. But, it’s really more like an official kindergarten photo. My sister and brother both have similar photos. The writing on the back is not my mom’s, but someone from the school. The...
Olive Tree Genealogy offers weekly prompts, called Sharing Memories, to “help all genealogists with writing up memories of our ancestors and our childhood.” Her prompts actually encouraged me to travel home this past weekend so I could copy some of my mother’s photos! I scanned about 200 of them, but I still have a LOT more to do. This week’s prompt is “Broken Bones & Other Accidents.” I immediately thought of an accident I had when I was about seven years old. And, I’m excited that I have a photo of my resulting injury… because of the scans I just...
I’ve really been working on my English ancestors the past few weeks. It’s the Eastwood family I mentioned in my last post, “A First Jump Across the Pond.” In that post, I shared about Humphrey Eastwood who I originally thought was my ancestor’s (James’) brother, but I found out he was actually his son by a first marriage. 1841 Census – Prestwich Cum Oldham, Lancashire, England from Ancestry.com If Sarah wasn’t Humphrey’s mother, then who was? I next found a birth record for Humphrey Eastwood which shows his mother was named Elizabeth. Humphrey’s original birth record Then, I found ANOTHER...
