Grandmotherly advice. That's what this book is about. Sure, it's filled with genealogy charts: IVY, DAVIS, PALMER, yes be exhaustiveHELP LISA . . . SMITH. [that is simply period after SMITH] Researchers will delight in that, and in the 1950s wedding photos, and in the farm stories, but the essence of this book is grandmotherly advice. And this creative grandmother,essentially patented her advice -- into leprechaun stories! Read on.These inspiring writings come from a beloved grandmother. We see late-in-life advice of the 1970s. We go back in time to her 1924 diary. We "hear" her LEPRECHAUN STORIES which are without parallel. We see charts of family history, plus cemetery photos using shaving cream to highlight the names and dates in the sunlight.