Archive for Family History
George’s 1980 anniversary letter
More great family-history material
Last night, I had dinner with family, and audio-recorded some family stories, and received two amazing troves of family documents:...
Letters from my mother to her parents
We've digitized a set of 23 letters from my mother to her parents, dated 1964 through 1968; I've been posting...
Letters from Marcy: Dec 1964
A couple years ago, I was given an amazing trove: a dozen letters from my mother to her parents, written...
Another FBI-file update
In today's mail: Another envelope from the FBI! In response to my FOIA request about my father, which I filed...
Helen describes herself (1931)
Among my old family papers is a folder containing a handwritten document by my grandmother Helen, in which she described...
Introducing the Hansons
Last month, I posted about the Olsons—my grandmother's mother and aunts and uncles, at least twelve of them in all....
Introducing the Olsons, or the Olsens
About a year ago, I started going through the then-newly-digitized photos of my grandmother Helen's family. And I got a...
FBI file, continued
It's always a little disconcerting to get an envelope from the FBI. But in this case, it was another set...
Letters from Peter: Haircuts
More old letters! This time they're from my father to my uncle, apparently from the early 1970s. (They're all undated,...
My middle name
I recently came across a remarkable thing: A file folder full of letters that my mother wrote to her parents...