kathleenachapmanApr 3, 20233 min52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 14 - Starts With A VowelThis is Arno Wolff Meyers, my great-grandfather. He was considered very handsome. As an adult, he was a traveling salesman and a bit of a...
kathleenachapmanMar 27, 20233 min52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 13 - Light a CandleA year or two ago, I ran across this 1931 newspaper clipping about Morris and Fannie Meyer's Golden Anniversary in a box of family...
kathleenachapmanMar 20, 20232 min52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 12 - MembershipI have five direct ancestors that fought in the Union Army during the US Civil War. At least three of them, possibly more, became members...
kathleenachapmanFeb 27, 20232 min52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 9 - Gone Too SoonBoth my 2nd great grandmother, Miriam Cohen, and her sister Yetta Witkofsky, perished in the worst US theater fire in 1903 Chicago. The...