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The following article was written by my friend, Thomas Fiske Great Uncle Tom fled from the KKK in Kentucky in 1875. He went out west and stopped in a small town on the prairie. Tom’s job in Kentucky had been Continue reading Finding Grover
The following article was written by my friend, Thomas Fiske Very seldom do my interests in cosmology and genealogy come together, but once in a while it happens. Especially when I think of a particular family line. No one really Continue reading Cosmology Genealogy
The following missive was written by my friend, Tom Fiske: I still have the scar. It is about 72 years old and, since I am blond, going white-haired, it hardly shows. But I know it is there, and I just Continue reading The Seventy-two Year-old Scar
The following article was written by my friend, Tom Fiske. Today in a fit of bad old memories I recalled the kinds of things my parents would say as I was growing up. There were three of us mean little Continue reading Out of the Mouths of Adults
The following is another interesting article by Tom Fiske: Not always do I practice genealogy. Sometimes I read about it. Right now I am reading a fun mystery by Fiona Mountain called Bloodline. It is a mystery involving a genealogical Continue reading Grits or Genes
The following article is presented by my good friend, Tom Fiske: Last July 2nd, the Fullerton (California) College Community Band put on its annual patriotic music performance. It was a large group that performed on the College quad surrounded by Continue reading Last Links to the Past
The following article is by my good friend, Tom Fiske: There was no Grand Canyon trip for me as others on this Blog have taken. And I went to a lot of trouble recently to release my birth certificate on Continue reading Too Much Trouble
The following article was written by my friend, Tom Fiske: One of the dot com book companies sent me a small book of poems by my favorite author, Wendell Berry.* In one short poem Wendell described a method of doing Continue reading Genealogy the Easy Way
The following article is by Tom Fiske: It was quite wet outside and winds were swaying the trees very dramatically. But I didn’t care. The house was warm and dry and I had a new book – The Mysterious Adventures Continue reading The Detective in Us
Another short and thought-provoking piece by Tom Fiske: Genealogy has been great fun for the past twenty-five years, tracking down the ancestors and cousins and looking up all that information. Lots of real detective work. Sometimes I waited ten years Continue reading Taking the Good With the Bad
Another interesting post from Tom Fiske: Some years ago I read that Leland Meitzler was going to be in Los Angeles at a genealogical meeting. We had never met except through letters and a few emails, so I decided to Continue reading Podcasting Your Family Stories
The following article is another by my good friend, Tom Fiske. In the past several years I have undergone several serious medical operations. These are not the “you’ll be off your feet for a few weeks” types of procedures. Oh, Continue reading Putting My Affairs in Order
The following is another interesting article written by my friend, Tom Fiske: Cicero, the Roman statesman and lawyer who lived until 46 BC, was credited with the statement, “The reasons behind the world’s greatest events are often more interesting that Continue reading Getting the Whole Picture
The following is another short and interesting item by my friend, Tom Fiske: I still have the letter. Although the envelope had been mailed sixty years ago, when I saw the handwriting I knew who had written it: my grandmother. Continue reading Investigating the Dark Side
The following is by my friend, Tom Fiske: A born recycler, I have been fixing things all my life. Radios, bicycles, old cars, and furnaces. I mention furnaces because when I was dating Evie, my fine wife, I went to Continue reading Recycling Family Histories