Corel Cousins

This Tombstone Tuesday is the hardest I’ve written.  Donald Charles Bishop was my dad.  He married the great-great granddaughter of James Pickens Corel.
Donald Charles Fletcher was born to the youngest daughter of Clifford Romaine Fletcher and Margaret Edna Cowan on October 16, 1950 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan.  As a young child, he went to [...]

I don’t really have anything new to say about the website, I just wanted to put up a quick post to let everyone know I am still here and I am still researching, I’ve just been busy and a bit scatterbrained.  I have been waiting for the Bonner library to tell me that a book [...]

As I mentioned Monday, in my mini-rant, I have begun adding images to the site.  I haven’t gotten very far yet, because I was seriously distracted yesterday by the “freebie” from World Vital Records!  I hope all of you other genealogists out there have signed up for the free days!
Along the top and bottom of [...]

Over the weekend I decided to take a different look at the website here, and Ancestry.com.  I was disappointed to see that unless you pay to join Ancestry.com, you cannot see all of the stuff that I am referencing as I am documenting my research!
After weighing the options on how to resolve this issue, I [...]

I have just completed the page for Julia Ann Corel, daughter of Henry Highland Corel and Nancy Matney.  The most captivating part of this page, in my opinion, is the detail I found on the company that Willis Myers served with during the Civil War.  For those of you who are equally fascinated by the [...]