William S Dean's Blog – August 2010 Archive (3)

Last night in the chat room, our GenWise hostess, Gena Philibert Ortega, passed along the information that the Summer, 2010 issue of Gastronomica magazine contained an article about one of my Yorba ancestors and that she'd make a copy for me. The article features my 2nd cousin, Piedad Yorba Sowl who owned and operated the Casa Verdugo restaurant in Glendale, California, in the early 1900s.…

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Genealogy is what the academicians call a "multi-discipline" pursuit. That means you use multiple skill sets and wide-ranging knowledge toward an end result. Other buzz words that apply to genealogy are the macro- and micro-. Through the micro- or narrow scope, we connect the family member "dots" of personal dates, places, and events; the macro- scope gives us perspective of how the specific fits in to the general sense of history.



You can hardly escape this "new" sense of what is… Continue

As a genealogist, a historian, and a historical re-enactor, I'm especially keen to see these three elements of my life merge in other events. Two events recently were brought to my attention. While searching for ancestors' final resting places at Find-A-Grave, I discovered those of one of my sets of gr-gr-great grandparents, Abraham Harmon (1802-1869) and Ann Pillers (1810-1888), buried in the New Palestine cemetery, in Illinois. I contacted the original poster with information about their… Continue