The first rule of tracing your ancestry is check it out. You may think you know all about an ancestor because you have heard stories about them from the time you sat on your grandfather’s knee. But it may not all be true. My great grandfather, John E. Doxon, fought in the Civil War. Or…
Several years ago, a total newbie, I began researching my ancestry. I built a huge family tree going back to antiquity, placing some of them in the tree based solely on other online family trees. As I got deeper into the process, I learned that mistakes are common, some “historians” made up stories of family…
We all spent the morning in the Cincinnati History Museum. The current main exhibit is transportation in Cincinnati, with a fantastic scale model of the streetcars in the city of the 1940s. In my soon-to-be-released book Ninety Day Wonder, Gene Sinclair passes through Cincinnati, is delayed, and watches a baseball game at the stadium close…
