History comes alive.

In doing more research about my current writing project, I stumbled onto a website that brought the history of the civil war alive. The picture of the house in the following website is where I lived when I started school in Rossville, PA. My father’s aunt owned the house. We lived there from 1942 to 1947. Of course the house looked different at that time.
http://www.yorkblog.com/cannonball/2009/04/in-the-footsteps-of-jeb-stuart-6.html

I was born in Wellsville, PA., two miles from Rossville. After leaving Dover, PA., (where I lived at a later date) J.E.B. Stuart split his troops and one contingent went through Wellsville, PA., on July 1st 1863. My great grandfather was born in Wellsville, on July 3rd, 1863. His father was 29 years old at the time and had horses that were taken by Stuart’s troops. Records indicate that he submitted a claim to the State for compensation that he never got. http://www.yorkblog.com/cannonball/2009/04/in-the-footsteps-of-jeb-stuart-5.html

The above information I discovered this past week was the spark I needed to continue my writing project.

Abe this is so neat - I can really relate to what you are saying, where finding out how we fit into history ourselves makes it come to life, and it is so fascinating. I have been trying to gather some of the family history through my grandmother, and it's been made much harder since her stroke last year, but for me, tying those stories into the history that surrounded her at the time is fascinating.

I really hope that you are finding everything that you need.

Abe,

It is so exiting to find info on families and where they lived. Keep searching.

Carol

That's really great, Abe, finding information that helps tie a lot of things together, especially when it includes your family.

Keep us posted on the work in progress.

Malcolm

Thanks Malcolm.
I've already written much, but who would want to buy a book about the life of someone they never heard of? What I have so far will be a family journal if nothing else.

I did that writing, and what we have to remember is that all our lives are stories and we as writers have the responsibility to make them interesting.

I need to write my third great-grandmother book and find I have way too much information.

I never expected my books to be more than family journals, but many others who read the books found them interesting. But the best was when others said they had inspired them to write their own family histories.

We need to know our family histories, even if only for medical reasons.

Carol

Carol,
your books are interesting and inspiring.