A Sense of Family

Loudonville Cemetery is the final resting place of many members of the Sanborn family, who migrated to Loudonville, Ohio from ...

Loudonville Cemetery sits on a serene hillside in the heart of Loudonville in Ashland County, Ohio. This monument in the ol...

On a pastoral hillside in Athens, Ohio, is one of the most poignant cemeteries I’ve ever seen. Called simply “The Ridges” by locals, i...

It seems to me that people who research their family history share an important trait: empathy. Empathy for people long dead, whose lives p...

At the Ohio Historical Society last week, I discovered an obituary for my great-great-grandfather, James Ballenger, which appeared on the fr...

Don’t you love those ancestors who left a nice paper trail for you to follow? With time and study, you come to know and understand them, for...

This plain stone, wiped almost clean by the hands of time, marks the grave of Walter H. Bishop in Freedom West Cemetery in Freedom, Ohio. W...

This weathered stone marks the grave of Fitch Bishop, patriarch of my husband’s ancestors in Portage County, Ohio. Pitted with age, the let...

This little tombstone doesn’t look like much these days. Not your big, well-carved monument designed to last the ages. It’s sunk into the gr...

Albert F. Bishop, a resident of Freedom in Portage County, Ohio, was  my husband's great-great-grandfather. He suffered an unti...

I was thrilled earlier this month when Linda McCauley, who writes Documenting the Details , gave me the “Ancestor Approved Award.” Th...