Family History – Page 4 – Tales of a Family

New Lands and the Allen Family

Published on June 20, 2019July 23, 2023 by Ann Marie Bryant11 Comments

When my youngest brother, Keith, was in school, he had to research our family names. When my grandfather discovered the meaning for the surname of Allen, he agreed with the description, for he maintained the Allen men were as strong as a rock and extremely handsome!

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Happy Mother’s Day

Published on May 12, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant6 Comments

To the world, you are a mother, but to your family, you are the world.
unknown

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Stop the Press!

Published on March 31, 2019January 20, 2022 by Ann Marie Bryant4 Comments

In order to hereunto, the Publisher will take what pains he can to obtain a Faithful Relation of all such things: and will particularly make himself beholden to such Persons in Boston whom he knows to have been for their own use the diligent Observers of such matters.
Benjamin Harris

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The Lives of Gaspard Boucher and Nicole Lemaire: 12x great grandparents

Published on March 27, 2019February 3, 2022 by Ann Marie Bryant21 Comments

The people best fitted for this country are those who can work with their own hands.
Pierre Boucher

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The Land of Milk and Honey

Published on March 16, 2019February 3, 2020 by Ann Marie Bryant2 Comments

If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us.
Numbers 14:8

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The Ties that Divide

Published on February 24, 2019February 24, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant18 Comments

Like many grand narratives, some of the best were often rooted in legends and a bit of mystery. This tale was no exception. As details emerged, so did the many questions that raced through my mind as I hit one brick wall and then another.

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Home

Published on February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant4 Comments

In the fall of 1961, a smiling couple poses for a photo. The handsome man drapes his arm around his lovely bride while she holds their three-month-old daughter. In the background, the family ranch stretches across the mesa.

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From the Heart: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Published on February 10, 2019February 10, 2019 by Ann Marie BryantLeave a comment

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The True way to Live: Laura Ingalls Wilder

Published on February 3, 2019February 5, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant4 Comments

“I realized I had seen and lived it all—all the successive phases of the frontier, first the frontiersman, then the pioneer, then the farmers and the towns.”
–Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Connections, Ideas, Questions, and Help!

Published on January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 by Ann Marie Bryant5 Comments

The earliest maps were ‘story’ maps. Cartographers were artists who mingled knowledge with supposition, memory and fears. Their maps described both landscape and the events, which had taken place within it, enabling travellers to plot a route as well as to experience a story.

Rory MacLean

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