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Susan E L Lake

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I’ve been a genealogist for more years than most folks can imagine. I was fortunate to be guided in my very early years by Christine Knox Wood. That single gift from one person to another has made all the difference in the world. I explained to her that I was a young mother, going to school, and far too busy. She said, “Just gather the information while folks are still alive. You can do something with it later.” She was SO right. So now in my dotage, I’m doing something with it.

The Germans are Haunting Me   

I always grew up thinking of myself as English. Not surprising with a name like Lancaster. I even did a…

April 27, 2017January 22, 2021

A Bridge Across the Generations

I know from my own experience that it’s often a challenge for one generation to have meaningful conversations with another.…

January 27, 2016January 22, 2021

Memories for a Lifetime

My son-in-law and his daughter were here this weekend so he could install a rail down the back porch steps…

January 23, 2016January 27, 2016

A Special Thanksgiving

This is the season when I look back over the photographs I’ve taken during the year trying to decide which…

December 30, 2013December 30, 2013

Defining Family

Folks are often amazed that I gather together EVERYTHING on EVERYBODY when I’m doing family research. They tend to ask,…

October 8, 2012January 22, 2021

Ella Scott DuVal and James Robert Lancaster

This newspaper clipping is hard to read yellowed with age. But it’s a priceless document. I have nothing else from…

October 11, 2011September 6, 2012

Liston Bay Lancaster

It used to be said that getting one’s name in the newspaper was a sign of poor taste. That was…

October 10, 2011September 6, 2012

Cosmic Impact

Each of us thinks we are unique – unusual – and memorable. We think our passage to and from this…

May 16, 2011September 6, 2012

Tompkins Bible

There’s an old Bible that has had a place of honor on my credenza for many years. My children never…

April 23, 2011September 6, 2012

I wasn’t always a Lake

My daughter commented this week that I was beginning to sound just like Baba (my mother-in-law) as I waxed poetic…

March 23, 2011

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