While the bulk of my grandmother’s life (Jennie Majdic) was spent in Hudson, WY she spent a handful of years in Chicago in the 1940s. I mentioned a little bit about her friend Kimiyo in a previous post, but now let’s dive into her trip to Chicago to visit her aunts and all the excitement that happened in just shy of 6 years it seems. Grandma Jennie graduated from Fremont [...]
War is hell and I often bristle at the presentations and concept of war enthusiasts. I just wrapped up at a genealogy conference with one such war enthusiast, which got me thinking about my family’s role in the Civil War and holes in my genealogy. For the most part, half of my family had yet to immigrate in 1865, so I knew they hadn’t participated. Maryland, St. Mary’s specifically, played [...]
