Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Final Thoughts
Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey...
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neal174
- Nov 15, 2021
- 9 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 - Vol 13
“You’ve got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going ‘cause you might not get there.” -Yogi Berra “It’s not too far, it just...
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neal174
- Nov 3, 2021
- 8 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Vol 12
“Oh, the places you’ll go!” – Dr. Seuss MISSISSIPPI October 15th – Clarksdale MS Neal -As Janice and I drove south from Shiloh on our way...
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neal174
- Nov 3, 2021
- 7 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Vol 11
Nashville Neal: Coming to Nashville for a week with Janice had some emotional baggage. I got married there in 1978 and again in 2006. ...
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neal174
- Oct 13, 2021
- 5 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Vol 10
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” –John Steinbeck. North Carolina From Antietam we drove down the beautiful Blue Ridge...
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neal174
- Oct 11, 2021
- 4 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Vol 9
Harper’s Ferry On the way to Antietam, we stopped at Harper’s Ferry where abolitionist John Brown led a small group on a raid against a...
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neal174
- Oct 11, 2021
- 7 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Vol 8
On the way to Gettysburg via Newark - September 25th Neal: As you know, I’ve been tracing my dad’s ancestors from Iowa to Ohio. While...
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neal174
- Oct 10, 2021
- 9 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Vol 7
“I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the...
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neal174
- Sep 20, 2021
- 5 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Vol 6
“We may never pass this way again.” After a month of travel and four thousand miles across the heartland I’m asking myself “Why are we...
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neal174
- Sep 20, 2021
- 4 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Vol 5
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome,...
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neal174
- Sep 19, 2021
- 4 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Vol 4
“It’s 106 miles to Chicago, we’ve got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes; it’s dark and we’re wearing sunglasses. Hit it!” The...
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neal174
- Sep 19, 2021
- 5 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Vol 3
August 27th -The latest installment of Neal and Janice’s Great American Road Trip Neal’s note : August 21, Strawberry Farm - Muscatine...
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neal174
- Sep 19, 2021
- 3 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 Vol 2
Great American Road Trip Vol 2 August 19 - Greetings to everyone from Rochester Minnesota. We’ve been constantly in motion since our...
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neal174
- Sep 19, 2021
- 3 min
Genealogy Road Trip 2021 vol 1
The following is the first of many copies of a report that Janice and I wrote to communicate with a few friends on our 2 and 1/2 month...
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Neal Ashmun
- Jan 30, 2019
- 1 min
Working with Clients
2019 is finally the year I've begun research as a professional genealogist. It's a big step. Calling my self a 'professional' and...
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Neal Ashmun
- Aug 7, 2018
- 1 min
I'm honored and humbled
My Genealogy Family History Writing teacher, Sharon DeBartolo Carmack encouraged me to submit a "How-To" essay about researching Colorado...
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Neal Ashmun
- Jul 10, 2018
- 1 min
Building My Genie Skills
I'm taking classes online at Salt Lake Community College in the hopes that I'll someday be able to assist clients with their family...
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