Thank you to great historians who captured moments in time that curious people like me can discover.
With great appreciation for my friend, Julie Cowan, who is always and forever brainstorming story ideas with me just for fun over lunch.
Deep gratitude to the Pencildancers: Diana Brandmeyer, Jennifer Crosswhite, Liz Tolsma, and Jenny Carey. You ladies are there for me every time. Thank you for constantly supporting and pushing me to keep going for my own goals and dreams. Thank you for answering every email, praying with me, and sending me so much love when I lost my parents during this writing journey.
I wouldn’t be at this place in my life without all of you in my life and supporting my career even as I struggled to finish college and write books and handle family needs. I’m not here as an author, speaker, and genealogist because I did it by myself. I’m here because all of you kept me going when it felt too hard to do it myself.