When research doesn't seem to pay off...

In stolen minutes here and there I've been trying to do some genealogical research to reconstruct the history of my oft-fractured family. My father and my maternal grandmother were both estranged from their respective families. The generations are so extended (my grandmother was born in 1881 and my father in 1913) that the records for my great-grandparents are very difficult to find on my father's side.

I almost feel as if I can find more evidence about Anglo-Saxon England than about my own family history. I'll continue to post as I discover more about Rosa Ellen Maxwell (my maternal great grandmother) and Samuel Steele (my paternal great grandfather).