by Deb | Feb 20, 2013 | Shoemaker Family
I picked up my book from the printer yesterday. It looks great. Now the hard part comes – advertising and marketing a limited audience book. The book title is: Shoemaker and Packard History: A Letter from James Doty to Arthur Shoemaker 1965. I hope the...
by Deb | Dec 29, 2012 | Daughters, Shoemaker Family
I didn’t make the Christmas deadline I had set for myself, but did make it to the printers December 28th. The book will be available through my website in the new year. With the index of more than 3000 names, the book will be at least 120 pages, in hardback,...
by Deb | Dec 3, 2012 | Shoemaker Family
I’m coming down the home stretch on publishing the letter that James K. Doty wrote to his cousin Arthur (Clell) Shoemaker in 1965. I have been working on documenting this letter for at least 4 years. I’m still looking for an obituary on James K. Doty, who...
by Deb | Nov 14, 2012 | Shoemaker Family
I have finally proven my ancestor, Susannah Shafer Shoemaker Ayres, to be the daughter of Adam Shafer and Elizabeth Swartout/Swartwood of Luzerne County, PA. This was a hard one. I first found her listed on an application for NSDAR, as one of the children of Adam and...
by Deb | May 3, 2012 | Duart Family, Shoemaker Family
I joined the Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1861-1865, this year, under Great, Great Grandfather John Wesley Duart. I didn’t know too much about him or his regiment, so I’ve endeavored to write an article about him. It also spurred me...
by Deb | Apr 17, 2012 | Shoemaker Family
I’ve been notified that another one of my NSDAR supplements has been approved. Benjamin Stone was born in 1732 in Dudley, Worcester Co., MA and married Susannah Buckman. These are the parents of Perris Stone who was married to Jesse Morse. I also have Obadiah...
