Your Mom Genes

07/17/2025

Ancestry is invited me to an invite only club that cost 5k a year. Its callled Club 1890 They get a ton of my money already. For 5k they should give me a time machine to go save the 1890 census. 😳

06/16/2023

https://www.yourmomgenes.com/my-blog/102-years-lived

Samuel Joseph- 102nd Birthday Party March 2023

01/17/2023

30 years of ancestry research and I never could have imaged this. So happy for our family.

https://www.facebook.com/1265858961/posts/10228894813896210/?

04/16/2022

Dr Turlfey family, Pittsburgh, Pa 1911

Dr. George G. Turfley, Zerbie Dorsey's father, was the first registered African American doctor in Allegheny County. He was born in Pittsburgh on October 9, 1855, to John Turfley and Mathilda Brooks. Turfley first attended the Separate Schools of Pittsburgh until 1872, at which point he entered Central High School. He was one of the first black students to graduate from Pittsburgh schools in 1876. He first studied medicine under Dr. C. D. King of Allegheny before entering the Western Reserve Medical College in Cleveland, Ohio, from which he graduated in 1879. Turfley began his practice in Pittsburgh, and for ten years he was the only African American doctor in Pittsburgh. He served as president of the Board of Trustees of Avery College Trade School from 1903 until 1917 and was a member of the Allegheny Medical Society, the Eureka Lodge of Odd Fellows and the Medico-Pharmaco-Odonto Association of Allegheny County.

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/.../pittsburgh/dorsey.html

03/28/2022

My Mom Genes are strong!! Happy 101st birthday to my Pap, Samuel Joseph. ❤️

01/04/2022

I am back into my blog for 2022! It's been too long! Thanks to my Pap and Amy Johnson Crow for inspiring my return to writing in the 2022 challenge.

Our lives are made up of single events that shape who we are and how we see the world. World events certainly have an impact, but it's our own unique experiences that form the foundations of who we are.

12/08/2020

Dr. Marvin James Farr, 81, of Scott City, Kan., passed away Dec. 1, 2020, in isolation at Park Lane Nursing Home. He was preceded in death by more than 260,000 Americans infected with covid-19. He died in a room not his own, being cared for by people dressed in confusing and frightening ways. He die...

11/01/2020

I have been a little slow in blogging recently. I need to get back to it. But in the mean time think of all the people who made your life possible AND in the current environment think about how many of them may have been different from you.

08/03/2020

It’s been two years since I started the blog. I’m celebrating by finally displaying my most prized genealogical possession. My great great grandmother, Mathilda Hammers McConnell’s, family bible. Courtesy of Joe Foley ❤️ It is 137 years old ❤️

07/24/2020

An amazing thing happened to me today and I wanted to share. I hope it puts a smile on your face as it did mine.

My phone rang just before lunch. I almost didn't answer, feeling certain that it was someone wanting to extend my car's warranty. I took my chance. I heard a lovely voice on the other end of the phone. After confirming it was me, her next words were "I am the granddaughter of Lillian LaRoux."

07/18/2020

The latest installment in the Eight Great Series. My Great grandfather Arnold William Spore.

Some of the life of my great grandfather Arnold William Spore.