In September 1953, my aunt, Gladys Whalen Stoddard (1893-1973), wrote about her paternal grandfather, Thomas Whalen. Gladys was my father’s sister and the eldest child of Thomas’s only son, Charles C. Whalen and his wife Leta Mary Clarke Whalen. A photocopy of Gladys’s four-page document is included at the end…
Category: Greene
Some Ancestors’ Portraits
Many in our family have copies of the following four portraits. This is thanks to our dear brother, Charles Howard Whalen. Charlie made copies of these and other photos and made sure our dad and siblings each had a framed set. Charlie was devoted to family history, and we are…
We are Mayflower Descendants — Who Knew???
Our Pilgrim Ancestors Every once in awhile, the people at Family Search, the free online genealogy platform I use to both research and record our family tree, will send along discoveries they have made for us regarding our ancestors. This week they sent a doozie! Those of us in the…
Clean Up Days
Genealogy can be a messy subject! I’ve spent the past 2 days sorting through boxes and notebooks containing family group sheets, handwritten notes, interview write-ups, newspaper clippings, photos, how-to articles, maps, and all the other stacks of ephemera connected with doing genealogy the way we did it before computers came…