Ancestors & Anecdotes

In 1991, my mother’s cousin visited her to deliver his account of their family with a book called, Ancestors & Anecdotes. I have read and reread this book many times over the last 30 years and became enthralled with it again as our family looked forward to the first baby being born to the next generation.

It is a gift to have this historical, and humorous, story of our family. One of my great-uncles did genealogy research on our family and learned my mother’s father's family was a co-founder of Andover, Massachusetts after leaving England in 1634.

In addition to telling tales about the cottage on Lower Nashotah Lake that would become a family home, the book also shares wonderful details of where the extended family lived in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Milwaukee. My immediate family spent five months before we moved to Oconomowoc just a few blocks away from where my mother lived with her parents before moving to Summit after World War II.

I am in the process of creating a new edition of the book with added pictures that I found with the help of a cousin. This edition will be in digital form as well so the next generations will have the history of our family.

I hope you have your version of something like Ancestors & Anecdotes to pass down to younger generations.

See you in church!