Want to learn more about your Marous/Ziska and Scott/Strader family histories? This website is the place to learn about your family heritage.
Welcome to my genealogy website. It’s taken me over 40 years to collect the information contained within these pages and I’m eager to share with you all of the knowledge, dates and stories I’ve collected over the years. But my efforts are not complete. Nor will they ever be. For our family is forever changing and growing. My most heartfelt wish is that you’ll help me add to this site with your photo’s and stories.
Welcome to my Blog! Read about the lives of our ancestors with a few stories of my own life thrown in for good measure.
Listen to the Recorded Voices of Our Ancestors as They Talk About Their Lives and Heritage
On December 24, 2001, my cousin Donna Scott Nusrala sat down with our grandmother and grandfather, Dorothy and Charlie Scott and recorded their conversation as Donna [...]
“How Sweet Life Is” a book by Virginia Marous
Turn the pages of this autobiography of the late Virginia Marous as she recounts the days of her childhood, through the years of raising six children with [...]
Farewell to “Uncle Bud”
Dateline: September 22, 2003. My great-uncle Bud died today. I didn't know him well, but did meet him a few times throughout our lives. The last [...]
Anna Catherine Oliver Orphaned by Age 5
I imagine little Anna Catherine Oliver, my great-great-grandmother was looking forward to her fifth birthday, as most children do at her age. Instead, she became an orphan [...]
Visiting my ancestral home of Scotland
In August of 2012, I realized a lifelong dream of visiting my ancestral home of Scotland to see for myself where my forefathers had come from and [...]
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I’ve had a love of genealogy my entire life, rooted in my belief that family is central to a happy life. For me, there is just something good about knowing where and who a person comes from. That sense of being connected to something larger than myself makes me see the wonder and serendipity of everything that had to happen for me to exist.