William S Dean's Blog – August 2009 Archive (1)

While the dates of births, marriages, re-locations, public service, deaths, and burials give genealogists the "bare bones" of a family history, we always need more. Sometimes we are fortunate to have family stories, anecdotes, letters, diaries, and quotes to help flesh out the ancestors' lives, but again, we always need more. What some of us would like to know about our ancestors is "how they lived, thought, and possibly felt" -- what influenced them, what was going on around them, and this is… Continue