“Everything is relative except relatives,
and they are absolute.”
-Alfred Steiglitz
Family history is a way to bring our ancestors to life.
This blog details my journey as a genealogist and is a means to record my notes, recent discoveries, and the stories of my ancestors. The goal of Relatively is to inspire other family historians to preserve and share their own family stories.
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My Founding Fathers
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Questions from Uncle Paul
My uncle and I were recently talking about his grandparents, Clarkson and Olive (Anderson) Hendrickson. He had questions about why he never really saw them…
Graven Images: The Lockwood Marble Works Books
I haven’t been writing much lately, and that’s because I’ve spent the better part of June conducting some much-needed research in New York, investigating our…
Just the Facts: Harold Ewart
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