Oil Painting of Virginia Smith (1827-1906)
I recently had a family heirloom appraised. It's an oil portrait of 2GG Virginia Smith (1827-1906) as a girl, painted by her older brother Hamilton Lanphere Smith (1819-1903). We had it hanging in our dining room, but moved it recently to…
The Thoughts of Our Ancestors
There are many reasons why I like genealogy. I should do a blog post on the subject someday.
But, certainly, one reason is to get to know you're progenitors more personally. What did they look like? What kind of personalities did they…