This week, our topic is “Strength”. I picked Rachel Kilburn [Kilbourn] Barber, my fourth and fifth-times great-grandmother (my great-grandparents were second cousins). I talked about her in our week one topic about ancestors we would like to meet. To briefly recap my genealogy research, Rachel was born in 1777 in Farmington, Connecticut, the daughter of…

This week’s theme is “Bald”. I admit, this one threw me a bit, and I was not sure what to write about. So, I started with the traditional meaning, lack of hair. I thought about the men in my family, such as my dad. Most of his life, he was clean cut. But he did…