Bøker av Claudia C Breland

At age 22, Grace Dorsch has her hands full keeping house for her father, stepmother and two younger siblings in 1920s Detroit, Michigan. Suddenly, a letter announcing a bequest of a cottage in the tiny village of Beulah, in northern Michigan, turns her world upside down. Awaiting her there are new friends and further puzzles to solve: who willed the cottage to Grace, and who is resorting to violence to force her out of it? Was she born in Detroit or in Beulah, and was Herman Dorsch really her father? A genealogy mystery with timeless implications and old-fashioned, on-the-ground research, this will be enjoyed by genealogists and non-genealogists alike!

Mary Gladys Jordan was born in Anson County, North Carolina in 1912, the oldest daughter of 17-year old Hallie Walters and her husband Oscar Jordan. Hallie died when Mary was seven years old, and so with her father's consent, Mary was adopted by a childless couple, Rev. James Franklin and Betty (Smith) Sells. Mary Gladys Jordan Sells married Jethro Benson Thompson and had nine children before she died in 1980.Mary may not have known it, but she had deep roots in North Carolina. On both sides she had great-grandfathers who fought in the War of Northern Aggression. Surnames in her family tree include Jordan, Walters, Mask, Kiker, Stacy, and Williams. This is their story.