Millie

What can one say about their mother in law?  When I first met her under less than easy circumstances I felt somewhat intimidated, even though she was very kind.  But, as the days and years went by it was impossible not to love and admire this intelligent, brave, shy, talented, fun-loving woman who shared her only child with me.

This is the first post on this new blog, dedicated to Millicent Chapman Trindle and her ancestors.  Millie, herself, was interested in genealogy.  Over the years she told many family stories, usually with an edge of humor.

She was also a note maker, we inherited boxes and boxes of notes, many on little scraps of paper.  Somehow they never turned into the full stories we had hoped for. The many scrappy duplicates left me wondering whether she was trying for better handwriting, or thinking that writing it down again might spur further memories.

In this blog I hope to turn those notes into stories of her life, and the lives of the family she knew or sought.  It makes me a little sad that the wealth of online records we have today came just a little too late for her to have benefitted from the ability to track some lines a few generations further into the past.  But hopefully her granddaughters, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews and more distant relatives will enjoy this journey through her life and ancestry.