Sharing Family History With Your Children

Recently, I discovered that my 3rd great grandmother, Diana Post Holmes, had lived in Northeast Ohio in the Connecticut Western Reserve from 1820-1855. Her husband's family owned this home, which is now part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. We visited the park this weekend.

I wandered around the grounds with my daughter, imagining that Diana had visited this lovely, gracious, place--perhaps at a time when she had lost two of her own daughters. We discovered their headstones in the nearby cemetery, which clearly stated they were the daughters of Nathaniel and Diana Holmes. Imagine spending the money for a carved headstone in 1830 that documented the family--those girls mattered. But, no one had yet connected them to the family on an online tree--they were found because we visited. Going to the places they lived matters.