Monday's Diggings
What Grandma Knew About Her Family Did you ever have to create a family tree as a child? Or perhaps you have inherited a family tree or family information written down by a parent or grandparent. Today’s digging is a little different from the courthouse records, newspaper clippings, census records, and other documents that usually fill my genealogy files. It is a simple handwritten family sheet created by my grandmother, Pauline E. Mentzer Briles . At the top of the page, Pauline recorded her own name, birth date and marriage date. Below that are spaces for information about her parents and grandparents. What makes this piece of paper particularly interesting to me is its appearance. It clearly wasn't completed all at once. Some information is written in blue ink, while other entries appear to have been added in pencil. Even the blue ink isn't all the same. There are also corrections, additions, and plenty of blank spaces. In other words, this doesn't look like someone sitt...