A New Project – The Judkins and the Coburns

Welcome back to this space, loves! So, it’s obviously been a while since I posted on here about anything genealogically related. As anyone will attest, life sometimes steers us more than we steer it. Now that I’ve been able to take the reins back, I’m working on a few different projects. One of the most …

Emma M. Place’s divorce from William H. Wing

One of the prompts in the #52Ancestors challenge had to do with “courting.” Partakers were given the ability to decide what form of “courting” they wanted to look on, whether it be court documents and the like or romantic courting. I decided to hit a bit of a middle road: courting when post-courting goes array. …

The Search for Julia – Part III

As I’ve shared in The Search of Julia and The Search for Julia – Part II, I’m on the hunt to find one of my 3rd great-grandmothers. She has been a brick wall in my research for a while now, and I figure sharing some of the tactics I use to try to scour out …

The Search For Julia – Part II

(I promise, no cheesy shoe metaphors this time!) So, as I shared in The Search For Julia, one of the projects I’m currently working on is trying to track down the lineage of my 3rd great-grandmother, Julia Light. Julia was born in 1819/20 somewhere in Maine. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a copy of …