Spent this rainy Philadelphia weekend sorting through three of the seven boxes of Richland Farm books and ephemera acquired at Caplan's auction house in Savage, MD. We'd already, in March, participated in the online auction for the furnishings and collectibles from...
We’re thankful for the Ancestry.com Mothers’ Day and Fathers’ Day sale on DNA test kits as we are now stocked up in preparation for our Maryland Family Integrity effort. The first set of kits have been shipped to likely descendants of Cynthia Snowden (enslaved) and...
A wonderful feature of Ancestry dot com is that it signals you to upcoming milestone events related to those in your family tree. Simply open the family tree on which you'd like to focus, then click the 'home' tab. Upon scrolling the page, you'll see upcoming wedding...
Today, we visited the Harriet Tubman Cultural Center in Columbia, Maryland to experience the Oliver Cromwell Gilbert commemorative exhibit as well the rest of the impressive and immersive interpretation of the lives of African Americans in Howard County. When the...
Today is journal entry #1 and the beginning of the public release of this story of the life of Oliver Cromwell Kelly, as only his family may reveal. For the past 14 years, I have been researching the life of Oliver Cromwell Kelly (Later Oliver Cromwell Gilbert), and...
How this passion took root: In 2009, I was enjoying a standing monthly dinner with cousins and mentioned that my genealogical research had hit the period in history where I met our family’s enslavement. Dismayed, I suggested that I’d expected my research may find it’s...
At the start of 2022, just as I had completed my retirement from AT&T (following 28 years there), taken 1 month off and then started a new role leading sales and marketing for Sequential Technologies, Inc, I received a call from a longtime associate in the world...