2023 Posts

By Mary Owens Little on

January 9, 2023

Happy New Year!

My goal for this blog last year was to share what I have found about the Little and Owens families and to learn more about those who came before us. The 60 blog posts covered our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and second great-grandparents.


This year I will be adding any new information I find to the current posts, along with sources so you might want to go back and check periodically at the people you are interested in to see if I’ve found any new information.


This year we are planning to go visit a lot of the places our ancestors have lived to visit the cemeteries and clean the tombstones. I also need to visit the courthouses as well to find new information that isn’t available online. I’m also hoping to learn more about finding wills and deeds which should bring new information to light. 


I would also like to write about some of the homes and places our ancestors lived in, add posts for our third great-grandparents, which looks like it is going to be quite difficult, as the information is getting harder to find and explain some of the history of how people were named. Especially those from what is now Czechia. 


My sister brought me six boxes of records and memorabilia. There is an entire box of letters from my maternal grandfather to my grandmother when he served in World War II. I’m going to try to scan them and share a few of them here on the blog.


Thanks to everyone who has read the blog and has encouraged me to continue. I especially want to thank John for his encouragement and support.



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