Daughter discovers a genealogy gold mine in father’s letters
n the upstairs rec room of her home on Lake Concord, Joanie Schirm has spread her father’s life over a leather-sheathed pool table. Curled black-and-white photographs spill from overstuffed envelopes. There’s a stack of home movie canisters, plastic filing boxes with hanging folders of documents, and thick binders with letters written in Czech 70 years ago. for more click here