It's Leaves on the Tree's 7th Blogiversary!
Image by rawpixel. Seven years ago, I had a crazy notion to start a blog about my family stories. I was sorting through family photos and was enjoying them so much; I wanted a place to post them and to tell the stories behind them. My very first blog featured this fun photo of my mom, Anna Margaret Kozlina (1937-2010) and her brother, Tommy Kozlina (1940-2015). I absolutely adore this photo! Mom looks cute and determined and the whole scene just looks like something out of The Little Rascals TV show. Two hundred sixty-seven (267) posts later, my goal of sharing photos and stories has mushroomed to include posts on my research discoveries, heirloom investigations, methodology, and more, and covers not only my direct family lines, but also my husband (the Hubs)'s lines. It's a big, happy mashup of families hailing from Slovakia to Oklahoma, Croatia to Ohio, Pennsylvania to Coajila y Tejas, and pretty much everywhere in between. And it's been FUN! I am so excited to ...
