Stuff I’ve Written

The Big Document:

The Ancestry of Michael Ronald Spieth

The Appendices:

The Fragale Family in Escanaba: An Italian teenager settles in Upper Michigan: my great-grandfather.

Who Was John Andrew Rudick?: I dogged this guy for years, then I got the rest of the story.

The Crawdad Files: The newspaper writings of J. A. Rudick’s alter ego.

The Cecil Rudick Letters: Will papa and mama Cessna give the young lovers permission to marry?

From Cessna to Spieth: Ten generations, each with a story.

My Years up the Family Tree: How I done it, along with lots of facts and tales which fit nowhere else.

The Williams—Ance Connection: Excerpts from the research of Cousin Terri Ruleau.