About Me

This blog was started a couple of years ago - obviously it was unsuccessful endeavor.  I wrote a couple of blogs - then lost interest.

One of my passions for the last 35 years has been geneaology.  I've done lots of collecting, gathering and documenting the stories of my family history.  I recently was given two large trunks that belonged to my grandparents, Ansel and Mary (Maddux) Greenley.  The trunks are "mini" museums of family history.  Each item I pick up, comes with a small (and sometimes large) story.  As I am going through my grandmother's diary (she started one in 1908 when she was 13 years old, and continued until the week she died in 1967), looking at her scrapbooks, reading the letters she kept, I know this is stuff that others will want to know.  My Greenley grandmparents married in Las Vegas, New Mexico in 1920.  They had five children: Robert "Bob" (my father), Lela, Bette, William "Bill", and Everett.

My research has focused on my father's parents (Ansel and Mary).  But my mother's family also has a very interesting history. My mother (Barbara Becker Greenley) was born to older parents, and was their only child.  Her parents were Carl and Claudia (Briscoe) Becker.  Her mother was raised a Morman. All four of her grandparents followed Joseph Smith, then Brigham Young to Utah.  My mother has a cousin who is a professional geneaolgist at the Family History Center in Salt Lake City. My grandmother's family history has been WELL researched and documented by MANY people.  But I think I have some good stories from her to share.