danielwsherman11Jun 1, 20206 min readDouble Dose of Whiting DNA, chairs, giant pickerels, and maple syrupSequestered here at my home in Bella Vista, Arkansas waiting for a vaccine or cure, I’m thinking of the relatives on my father’s side....
danielwsherman11May 3, 20208 min read"The Rooster Incident"Uncle Larry, My Dad, and the ‘Rooster’ The ‘rooster story’ came to me piecemeal when I was ten years old, riding with Uncle Larry in his...
danielwsherman11Apr 25, 20204 min readThe "Sandbox Explosion" (1914)My father had five brothers and one sister that have all passed on now. I’ve always wondered what their lives were like living during...
danielwsherman11Jan 24, 202044 min readMemories of Brother DaleWhen genes were sorted at random my brother Dale got more of mom’s Italian ones. During the gene shuffling I ended up looking more like...
danielwsherman11Jul 21, 20195 min readMy Enigmatic Grandfather, The Old FoxDanny L. Jorgenson has done the most definitive studies of my sixth great grandfather on my father’s side, Alpheus Cutler. At the...
danielwsherman11Mar 2, 20198 min readCassius Sherman Freezes to death in 1873Cassius Sherman stepped from his cabin door January 7, 1873 and was greeted with a soft wind that held the promise of an early spring. ...
danielwsherman11Dec 24, 20185 min readGrandpa and Grandma Sherman attend the "The Priests of Pallas" Parade."Megan’s great Christmas blog, which included Grandma Maude’s story of the uninvited Christmas guest, prompted me to see if I had any more...
MegKunzeDec 23, 20185 min readChristmas Past: Memories of an Unusual House GuestI recently spent a few hours listening to my grandmother and her siblings recount stories of their childhoods. Seated around a coffee...
danielwsherman11Dec 9, 201814 min readSharon Lee Sherman (my sweet sister Sherry)Sharon Lee Sherman was born October 24, 1938, the same week that Orson Welles caused panic in the U.S. when he broadcast a realistic...
danielwsherman11Dec 9, 201819 min readJudith Jo Sherman ( Jo for joie de vivre) Unless you were abandoned and raised by wolves you can probably name the people who influenced you the most in your childhood. Those...
danielwsherman11Oct 2, 20188 min readThe Day my mother outdid Jesus, and other memories from the fiftiesMe standing in front of the big maple tree in our front yard - the neighbors grapevines behind me I Googled and Zillowed a street view of...
MegKunzeSep 3, 20185 min readBitter Ending and New BeginningsAt 4:45 on the afternoon of July 6, 1946 my father stalled the engine of his plane and started a spin move above a crowd of thousands at...
danielwsherman11Aug 14, 20187 min readMy Dad's Flight Log, Piper Cubs, and Pogo SticksThe first entry is June 14, 1940 Questions multiply like Catholic rabbits when I try to puzzle some of my family history out. I’ve...
danielwsherman11Jul 11, 20187 min readMegan, Money, and MiscellaneousAs you can see from the two previous blogs the ancestry of Albert (o) Anatole Alberti is still being discovered by the meticulous...
danielwsherman11Jun 14, 20186 min readPredictions, Money, and Mid- Air Motor Failures There are a lot of unanswered questions about my parents that I had hoped to find in the pile of letters I’ve been reading. I find...
danielwsherman11Apr 11, 20186 min readJohn Sherman: Colonial Renaissance ManDuring a span of 200 years, five generations of my Sherman ancestors remained in the Suffolk area of England. If one of them had decided...
danielwsherman11Mar 27, 20186 min readWitches and Wolves in WethersfieldI try to imagine what life looked like through the eyes of my Puritan ancestors in New England. I’m not happy with twenty- first century...
danielwsherman11Mar 14, 20187 min readMy 10th Great Grandfather in the New England WildernessTracking Samuel Sherman, my 10th great grandfather, through the New England wilderness has been difficult. Fortunately, he was prominent...
danielwsherman11Mar 1, 20186 min readSurprising New Insights on Sherman History in ConnecticutLooking into my family history was never intended to reach beyond my great grand parents. In the box that my three sisters delivered to...
danielwsherman11Feb 23, 20187 min readSamuel Sherman Votes to Declare War on Pequot IndiansResearching my family history in England would have been impossible without the internet, the wealth of records kept in the Parish...
