Hello followers and newcomers to this fabulous site of grandmothers' stories, where we are rewriting the 20th Century archive one grandmother at a time! I am taking a break from our regularly scheduled grandmother blog posts to request that you consider donating to this site. Every post, story and photo takes many hours to edit, format, and promote properly. I have no funding, so this is a labor of love, but I will need - to continue to grow the site - to ask for donations fr

Bella & Tina by Anne Fernald Clara Bella Donna Matilda Wold Anderson (1909-1985) My grandmother, Bella, was born in Minnesota but raised in China as the daughter of Lutheran missionaries. She left China to attend university. She became a pharmacist, first in Iowa, working for many different towns in northwest Iowa, and then in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and worked in that capacity until her health no longer allowed her to work. Christina Fernald Whitney (nee Smith) (1906-2000) E

This blog space is where we will reflect on this project of collecting our grandmothers' stories, my own process and yours. While I am the blog's nominal author, if you are working out some idea of how to approach telling your grandmothers' stories, micro-history, ethics of non-fiction and fiction, interviewing relatives, the vagaries of memory, genealogical data, or any other ideas that relate to researching and telling tales about your older female ancestry, please get in t