What if one could actually speak with a dead ancestor? I remember first “discovering” my 5th great-grandfather Michael Antoine Garoutte (1750-1829). I had known for some time that my ethnic background was almost exclusively Scots-Irish, with the exception of a maternal line traced to Germany. Discovering this direct link to France, through Michael Garoutte, came… Continue reading The Specter of My 5th Great-Grandfather
Though distant, I have an ancestral connection to someone who worked for NASA. Judge Charles M. Head Harold “Hal” Ashley Head, Jr. was born September 10, 1928, in Valdosta, Georgia. His father, Harold Ashley, Head, Sr., was the son of Charles May Head (1862-1914), a Superior Judge for Shasta County, California, and his wife Clara.… Continue reading Small World. Vast Universe.
What would it be like to have lived your entire life without your country ever being involved in war?
