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Monthly Archives: October 2023
Living Up to Our Potential
It’s October in the South. We will soon be free from days full of sunshine and comfortable temperatures. My gardening will come to a halt…. just as soon as I finish transplanting daffodils, sifting my compost, and putting my garlic … Continue reading
Connecting to My Heritage
Holidays in my family are some of the best memories I have. We didn’t have many traditions, but one thing my aunt did every year was celebrate Christmas from another country that our ancestors were from. We would study the … Continue reading
Amy’s Tree
Raising 4 children in our home meant Christmas was a hectic time of gift secrecy, nonstop cooking and decorations everywhere. I always put up a traditional tree filled with the wonky ornaments my children made in grade school, ornaments given … Continue reading
Beautiful Love Story
How far back do love stories go? In my family they go back to 1875, the story of Charles Bella Gyorke, my third great Grandfather, is a story passed down through generations. Charles Gyorke (name later changed to George) from … Continue reading
Italian Citizenship
For two years I have been trying to get dual citizenship. On my last visit home to New York I found a treasure stack of immigration information from Ellis Island and my paternal grandfather’s naturalization process. Because he filed AFTER … Continue reading
The Land of My Ancestors
I love my genealogy and have done the ancestry dna test to see where my ancestors are from. The science behind it just fascinates me and I could talk forever on the subject. I am definitively European with my majority … Continue reading
Music as Heritage
I started playing the violin at 11 years old. It was quite by accident, destiny or fate, however you interpret these sorts of things. We were having a birthday party for my cousin at my paternal grandparents’ house, when Granddaddy … Continue reading