If you've read through Part 1 and Part 2, I'm sure you're wondering what happened next. At least, I hope you are... When I saw the burial record for Margaret Murphy with Emma A. Shaw as the person who'd purchased the plot, I couldn’t contain my excitement. But I would have to over the next 5 ...
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Breaking Down a Brick Wall: Part 2
If you started at Part 1, the story continues here! After being told by one genealogical research company that the prognosis for finding my great-great-grandmother, Emma Anna (Murphy) (Reagan) Shaw, was "poor," I thought maybe they were right. However, I had Research Consultation time I had ...
Breaking Down a 26-Year Brick Wall: Part 1
After 26 years of wondering and guessing, digging and hypothesizing, flailing and sometimes giving up, it happened. When I originally posted “2019: The Year I Find Emma” on January 4, 2019, my entire focus was on DNA. Would you believe that, after all these years, DNA was not what led me to ...
Friends
As October nears, I feel the pull of the seasons stronger than ever. It draws me toward home with nostalgia for family and New England, and... certain friends. The idea of a “friend” has changed over the years, and I have some thoughts on it. Probably cynical ones, mind you, because I don’t think ...
Game Stream Makeup
Playing an RPG is fun. You get together with friends around a table with character sheets, dice, and pizza, and spend 3 or more hours pretending to be someone else on an adventure. Or you do it online from different states thanks to Discord and Roll20... and also broadcast it for the entire world ...
Emma Anna Murphy Regan Shaw
I like to go shopping at 7 a.m. Okay, that's not true. I just so happen to be up at 6:30 to get the kids out the door by 7, and it's convenient for me to go shopping as soon as they get on the bus. I don't actually enjoy driving into town that early, but the store is pretty empty, the line at ...