Recent Posts Tagged With 'lewis'

• Surname Saturday: LEWIS

  Posted on Saturday October 10th, 2009 at 04:00 in lewis, surname saturday

  The LEWIS family is my paternal grandfather's mother's line, and it is a name that is perpetuated into the present. It was my paternal grandfather's middle name, and is also my youngest nephew's middle name (he was born on my grandfather's birthday)....

• In Honor of St. Valentine's Day...

  Posted on Saturday February 14th, 2009 at 13:05 in lewis, robbins

  if found on my body please send to the address belowPvt Bryan RobbinsCo I 339th InfNov 3 1918 Archangle [sic] RussiaMiss Marie LewisHoyt StMuskegon Hts Mich USAGood bye, MarieMy last thoughts are of you and my peopleLove to allBryanThis is a partial ...

• Winter Photo Essay: Marie LEWIS

  Posted on Friday January 16th, 2009 at 01:19 in lewis, carnival of genealogy, robbins

  I've got lots of modern winter photos, but I went through my collection of scanned vintage ones, and figured out that these two were the oldest winter ones I have. The top one is of my paternal great-grandmother, Marie LEWIS, taken during the Winter...

• Friday Findings: LEWIS, TUINSTRA, Lookups and (Maybe) a Bigamist

  Posted on Saturday January 10th, 2009 at 12:35 in lewis, grand rapids, midkiff, tuinstra, friday findings

  I had hoped to post this last night, but was too exhausted after a long day to finish up the details. This has been a completely weird week, so I don't feel like I got much accomplished. Things happened in fits and starts, so to speak. School was ...

• Friday Findings: McCLELLAN Pension Record, E-mails, Atlas Project, BORCHERS

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 04:00 in lewis, mcclellan, valk, atlas project

  I ordered the Civil War Pension Record for my 4th-great-grandfather, Levi E. McCLELLAN (McLELLAN, McLALLIN, etc.). That along with subscriptions for Internet Genealogy (renewal) and Discovering Family History (new) were some of my Christmas gifts th...

• Friday Findings: VALK, LEWIS, McCLELLAN, Markham Twp Ancestry

  Posted on Friday December 26th, 2008 at 20:45 in lewis, mcclellan, valk, friday findings

  I haven't done a Friday Findings post in a while, and as I'm slowly returning to posting more of my regular "columns", I thought I'd start here. Friday Findings is a feature I started last summer to record my weekly research finds and cousin connect...