9 Day Itinerary San Francisco Day 1: We flew from the Midwest to San Francisco in the early afternoon. This left us with the majority of the day for sightseeing. San Francisco is a feast for sight and taste! We did not leave before we had our fill of both even though we were only here a short time. Our…
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Cemetery Stone Information Sheet
Free Printable After our Initial Cemetery Clean-Up was complete we were ready to move onto Phase 2 of restoring and preserving our Blackwell Pioneer Cemetery. You can read my 7 Initial Steps to Cemetery Clean-Up post here! Now that the cemetery floor was reclaimed from the forest we had a good view of the cemetery floor. We took the time…
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Ancestral Wedding Photos
As our nineteenth wedding anniversary came and went this past summer I couldn’t help but reflect on the weddings that took place before me in our families. Each wedding was special, in a totally different time and space, and how each are also similar. I have a wall in our bedroom where I frame and hang ancestral wedding photos of…
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Leave Room to Be Surprised
Back in the beginning of my research my main goal was to find out who my Grandpa’s dad was. It took me years to find out! You can read about that story here. The initial surname I was researching at the time was Moersch. It is a unique name and one that was pretty straight forward for my area and…
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Newport, RI + Flower Show Weekend Itinerary
Want to take a trip to Newport, RI, see their magical June flower show, and fill the weekend with fun? Of course you do! Ever since I learned of the exquisite flower show that the Preservation Society of Newport hosts each year I had been dying to go. I stalked their social media each June to see the pictures of…
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