She was a beautiful, young Irish maid, working in a wealthy English household. Her employer’s oldest son fell in love with her. When he announced intentions to marry her, his parents said they would disown him. He married her anyway. Then, bride and groom ran away to live happily ever after. “Her name was Mary Cordial,” my maternal grandmother Marilyn Matilda Dietz told me, that distinct glimmer of pleasure in her eyes—the one she always had when she retold this story. “And you are her legacy.”

This blog is a resource for those who want to--have to--find out more about who they came from.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Doctoring Genealogy


I was sitting here, wondering how I could make genealogy sexier, when I stumbled across this gem (in six parts) on YouTube. Click on the links below, and enjoy.


Who Do You Think You Are? -- David Tennant, Actor








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