My Ancestors

My paternal grandfather, Charles Cicero Codling, was born in Blenheim Township, Oxford, Ontario, Canada on Christmas Day, 1875.

In the 1910 census, taken in April, Grandpa was still a bachelor living in Monroeville, Indiana, boarding house while working as a telegraph

Growing up in Convoy could be idyllic. Everyone knew who you were, and it really did take the village to raise the child.

Named after her paternal grandmother, Lovina Amanda Roberson, she was 21 years old when she married my grandfather, Charles Cicero Codling.

52 Ancestors Challenge: One of my 256 eight-great-grandparents.

A line of tourist cabins provide a backdrop at Webb's Service Station, just north of Convoy, Ohio, at the intersection of State Route 49...

Remembering a woman I only met as an infant.

Using the term “war on FILL IN THE BLANK ” is cliche, I know, but the governor of Florida’s “war” on the honest and objective teaching of...

Henry Clay Hackett wrote about one of his experiences as a "guest" at Libby Prison in Richmond, Va.

Photos of a map drawn by Josiah Hackett of Casco Bay. The second is a flipped image. He seems to have "east" and "west" on the wrong sides.

17 U.S. Infantry Fort Preble Portland Me. Oct. 15, 1862 Dear Friends at home, I am well at present and hope these few lines will find you...

October 8, 1862 Fort Preble, Portland, Maine Dear Father and Mother, I take an opportunity between drills to write you a letter. I have...

In 1991, my father's sister, my Aunt Iris, gave me a small box filled with about three dozen folded up pieces of obviously well-aged...

This is Part 1 of a new series in this blog featuring random unusual or long-forgotten headstones found while I traipse through...

Ok, yeah. That's a geeky title, but maybe it got your attention. Photographic History Today's blog post has to do with photographs and...