Welcome to Family Skeletons

The purpose of this blog is quite simple. I hope that by sharing stories and personal essays about my family –and perhaps yours if you care to participate- we can all learn more about where we came from. By doing that, maybe we handle our present day problems in a manner that will enable us to become better people.

One thing’s for certain. All of our ancestors made mistakes, and some of them were so bad that they were hidden in that dark closet with the hope that they would never see the light of day again. But history has a way of opening closet doors, even when you try to keep it closed. That's one reason genealogy is so popular, though many researching family history are trying to keep the secrets hidden.

Still, the bottom line is if you don't know your past, no matter how brutal or cruel, then you can't do anything about the present. It's been said that we learn from our mistakes. But if we don't know what those mistakes are, how can we learn?