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Stories from One Family’s Melting Pot Heritage

The following chapters are planned but goodness knows when there will be time to get them written. As you come back to visit you'll see photos and research notes being added gradually.
American families lose their own oral history. Children always have better things to do today than listen to events of yesterday, as well they should. Family stories need to hang around until the listeners are ready for them. That is our job.
  1. The Irish Boat-Builder
  2. The Farmer grandson of the Wine Chateau Owner
  3. The Dutch in early New York
  4. The One who fell off the Mayflower
  5. The Witch-burners of Old New England
  6. The Swedes in the Connecticut River Valley
  7. The Swamp Yankee from New Jersey
  8. The Revolutionary who died on a British Prison Ship
  9. The Coffin-builder in the American Invasion of Canada
  10. The Mulatto Grandfather who passed as white
  11. The Civil War Courtesan’s Daughter
  12. The Magyar Immigrant who arrived before Ellis Island
  13. The New York Printer from Galveston, Texas
  14. The Financial Angel to Annie Oakley
  15. The German varnisher who died in a tenement fire
  16. The Inventor and the bag of money on the kitchen table
  17. The Banker’s Daughter and her 70th College Reunion