Last year on Valentine’s Day my husband Mike gave me the most important gift he would ever give me. It wasn’t my favorite gift out of the sixteen years we had spent together. To be honest, I hated this gift as soon as I received it. Stranger still, on that…

I published this on my Facebook page this past Friday (November 30th, 2018) when my friend and genealogy collaborator passed away after a sudden illness. I thought it worth publishing here on Medium… My friend died today. He was a friend I never met in person. But he was also…