I’m Lynda, a genealogist whose private work on family history goes back decades. On this site, I share stories from among the thousands I’ve uncovered.
I look forward to hearing from you if you find anything here of interest or use. And of course, if you’re a relative, please write!
What People Say
My childhood home I see again
And gladden with the view;
And still as mem’ries crowd my brain, there’s sadness in it too.
O memory! Thou mid-way world
Twixt earth and paradise
Where things decayed and loved ones lost
In dreamy shadows rise…
Abraham Lincoln, abt 1844
That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
George Eliot, Middlemarch
Rootedness 