Weekend get together with grandparents, kids, grandkids and greats! The family cabin which was actually a huge place with many rooms was so fun for the little ones to play hide and seek.

These lovely ladies were my cousins.

Journaling reads: In this lovely photo of Wellingore, I can see what the hamlet must have looked like when my 3 times great grandparents, Benjamin and Mary Scott Hare lived there in 1819. They married in Caythorpe in 1816, had son James in Stixwould in 1817, then Mary in Wellingore in 1819. Mary...

Journaling reads: I think I come by my love of learning naturally. Marquis Marcellus Deburger, my 3 times great grandfather and a most elusive RELATIVE to search for, was a schoolteacher of great repute in the late 1800s. He taught in a small town much like this. It is said he was the model for...

Snapshots of February full collection - Dandelion Dust Designs

My 3X great grandparents

Florence and Annie Todd were my 1st cousins twice removed. Their mother was my great grandfather's oldest sibling. Journaling reads: The pictures on the left are top, Florence Mary and her sister. We are not positive, but it is likely it is her younger sister, Annie, not her older Sarah...

Journaling reads I would love to spend a Christmas at Mount Vernon and one at Jamestown, both in Virginia. These places are important in American history, but closer to home, they are important in MY history. Both George and Martha Dandridge Custis Washington were distant cousins although...

This branch of the Wood family tree was continued in 1954 with the birth of daughter Susan Elaine, known as Susie to parents, grandparents, Aunt Pat and Uncle Joe, but a name forbidden to others. She was followed in 1956 by son Melvin Eugene, Junior, Skip or Skipper to the family depending on...

Journaling reads: Born 18 Jan 1857 in Brimfield, Peoria County, Illinois, Sarah was the first of Holland & Ellen Eyre Catton's children born in the United States. In 1857 she married Benjamin Majors in Fairbury, Illinois and the next day, her sister Elsie married Andrew McClanahan in the same...

This is the journaling on a companion page: This is my great aunt Mollie Wood Dulin, the oldest of Grandpa’s twenty siblings. She was much loved by all those in my father’s generation, an intrepid adventurer, and a lady with class. The large picture shows her in 1893 with her firstborn...

Both leaders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition are my distant kin. When I was reading about Meriwether Lewis it struck me that this man personified a Leo, and he was. His life was amazing, especially the part involved in this journey.

Journaling reads: Once upon a time, there lived a man who emigrated to Jamestown in 1621 to whom King Charles, I gave letters patent granting him the right to settle and trade in a large swathe of the land belonging to Virginia and as far north as what is now Newfoundland. Unfortunately, the...

These little girls were my 2nd cousins twice removed - their grandaunt was my 2 X great grandmother. Their father helped pioneer and establish woolen mills in Oregon.

This is such a super template for this heritage LO. And Sheri's kit goes right along with it. Thanks for both, Sheri Journaling reads: Florence Mary Todd wed Charles C. Cooling on 8 March 1899 in Saunemin, Livingston County, Illinois. They had six children together, all boys: Albert C...

This is my mom Ann at 4 (back) and my aunt Sandy at 2 (front) in the winter of 1937. I used Regina's kit Hivernales for this. I bought it as a bundle but cannot find the bundle in the store...it is sold separately...I am posting the elements...

Back in 1993 we had a chance to go to a Scotland games and gathering. I have Scottish heritage through my father's family...his grandfather came to America from Scotland. My maiden name is Campbell. I used Indigo's kit Legends Of Scotland...

This is my mom and dad, George Campbell and Ann Newport, right after they got married. It was a small wedding family and close friends. They got married in November 1953, which is technically fall but it snowed the night before. I tried to keep the snow in the page and I love the car in the...