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Jeanne Shields

How do you get started tracing your family back?

My advice is to start with ‘familysearch.org’ site. It’s free. It helps you along the way. Start with your grandparents if you can. The…

Jan 29, 2023

Jan 29, 2023

Who are we?

I am a genealogist. I follow a family line back from child, to mother and father and so on. I trace ancestors through census records and…

Jan 27, 2023

Jan 27, 2023

Guns and Our Relationship With Them

People are still debating what went wrong in Uvalde. And what should be done about schools. There are excellent studies and books on the…

Jun 19, 2022

Jun 19, 2022

One Voice

People are asking, should Donald Trump go to prison for his actions during his presidency? I’m one voice, pretty insignificant I admit. Do…

Jun 5, 2022

Jun 5, 2022

Roe and Casey

In the excellent book Inheriting the Trade by Thomas Norman DeWolf, the DeWolf family grapples with their legacy as descendants of a…

May 5, 2022

May 5, 2022

My Irish Ancestors — Coming to America

When the Irish came to American in the 1800s, they did so with very, very little. I have a small wooden box that one of my ancestors…

Apr 30, 2022

Apr 30, 2022

Our History Our Time

Today is January 7th, 2021. When I was in college at the University of Minnesota, in the 70s, getting my degree in history, I never…

Jan 7, 2021

Jan 7, 2021

Donald Trump May Be To Blame For Many Things…

But don’t put the blame the destruction of the Republican Party squarely on him. He is but one man. He may have kicked in a crumbling…

Jan 6, 2021

Jan 6, 2021

I AM FREE

I feel so free in the time of COVID. I feel so free. Is that crazy? I tell my children, and anyone who will listen, that when you look…

Aug 6, 2020

Aug 6, 2020

The Real Reason for the Shutdown

Do you honestly think Trump is building the wall because his base wants him to build it? I think we all know he cares as much about his…

Jan 11, 2019

Jan 11, 2019

Jeanne Shields

Jeanne Shields

I am a writer and an historian who understands our past just enough to know that who we are, can be altered in a decade’s time. Or in mere minutes.

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