[Fearless Females #18…Special Talents] My Grandma Lassalle was a bit of an old fashioned person. Anything she could make with her own hands she did. She was a craftswoman with a needle. She tatted, sewed, embroidered. All fine work she did up until her 80s. When I was a child, she made pajamas for all…
Category: About My Ancestors
Fearless Females: Grandma Was A Radical!
[Fearless Females, 17th of March, Social Organizations and Groups…a report from 2011 Not really. But it makes for a great headline. LOL I don’t know what organizations my Grandma Shellabarger belonged to while raising her family. I don’t really think she had much time for them to tell you the truth. In the 1980s, she…
Catherine (Kelly) McSwegan’s Individual Summary
Catharine (Kelly) McSwegan was my 3rd Great Aunt. Catharine’s husband, Thomas McSwegan, was a plasterer. He was seriously hurt on the job in the mid-1890s. He died at the age of 50 from the those injuries in 1895. Catherine had 9 children, 3 of them born after 1890. One born a year before Thomas died….
Fearless Females: A Lunch Date with Great Great Grandma
[Fearless Females #16…Who would you have lunch with?] It took me some time to decide who in my family tree I would have a lunch date with. I’ve settled on my most mysterious female ancestor, Ana Jacinta (de Melo) Pacheco. Ana was from the town of Achada on Sao Miguel Island. She was the daughter…
Six Word Memoirs
[Fearless Females, Prompts for Women’s History Month, March 15th–Write a sex-word memoir tribute to one of your female ancestors. Did you know that I have already written a six-word memoir? It was published in the book “Not Quite What I was Planning”–a book filled with six word memoirs. Today’s task is to write a six…