What did I do this week? This week, I was not able to engage with my research as much as I would have liked. Between kids, work, and our household getting a cold, there wasn’t much time left for family history. But I still managed to accomplish a few things. The Audit I have continued with the big audit… even though my squirrelly brain is screaming “I’m bored, let's chase something shiny” - I’ve stuck to my guns, and kept going. I’ve fully fleshed out my great-grandfather, Lo

They are able-bodied men here who work from early morning until late at night, in the ice-cold cellars with a quarter inch of water on the floor -- men who for six or seven months in the year never see sunlight from Sunday afternoon till the next Sunday morning -- and who cannot earn three hundred dollars in a year. There are little children here, scarce in their teens, who can hardly see the tops of work benches -- whose parents have lied to get them their places -- and who