A holiday gift: My grandmother’s voice
My parents named me after my paternal grandmother Mary Frances (Owen) Charboneau, whose nickname was “Molly.” A large Welsh-Irish woman from Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Md., she stood over six...
View ArticleA Broome County bride
Third in a series tracking my ancestor Arthur Bull’s family from the Catskills to the Adirondack foothills (1870-1880). Pecking away at the family history of our Bull ancestors was a vacation ritual I...
View ArticleMoose River and Otter Lake
When Dad and I made our first family history trip together in August 1992, we knew next to nothing about the family of our ancestor Arthur Bull — the father of Eva (Bull) Charboneau, my dad’s paternal...
View ArticleMapping Moose River
A newspaper announcement about the death of my great, great, great grandmother Mary Bull provided the first clue that my Bull ancestors lived for a time in Moose River Settlement, in the Town of...
View ArticleThe Bulls and the Black River Canal
During the time that we researched the family history of our Bull ancestors together — focusing on the 1860s-1880s — my dad could never get over how mobile they were. “You don’t think about people...
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