by Jennifer Zinck | 27 March 2016 | Cousins, General, Holidays, Photographs
As the first grandchild, I was the lucky recipient of Harvey, the bunny that my grandfather won at Wolfe’s Bakery, one of the yummiest places of my childhood. In this picture, it seems as though I was more interested in the candy or whatever else was going on in...
by Jennifer Zinck | 18 November 2015 | DNA, Forensic Genealogy, General, Genetic Genealogy
“Mommy, Brother says I’m adopted!” I’ve heard that before, when my oldest son convinced my second son that he was adopted. It seems to be the thing for siblings to do. A decade later, when my second son tried it on his little sister, this mom was prepared. Come over...
by Jennifer Zinck | 18 December 2011 | Advent
Filled with excitement, we ran to the living room. “Santa came! Santa came!” we shouted. Grandma stepped in from her post in the kitchen. “You can open your stockings until everyone else gets up,” she told my sister and I, as she did every...
by Jennifer Zinck | 17 December 2011 | Advent
Today, like every Christmas that I can remember, I had dinner with my cousins. Last year we decided that we would get together the Saturday before Christmas since I live farther away now. I have three cousins on my maternal side and two of them have two children, a...
