Poplar Hill Happenings

Some local sources

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philp. 4:6-7

Eggs, tomatos and community

Yesterday I had to travel to Litchfield, KY and was unable to convince my daughter (11) to eat at a local establishment (one step at a time!). At least she has moved from eating McD's to Subway and healthier choices. However, I had a grand time in the kitchen after I got home making zucchini bread. Local eggs, locally milled flour (Nunn Better-Evansville, IN) along with my garden zucchini I froze last year made up the bulk of the bread. If you ever make zucchini bread using frozen zucchini remember to omit the water the recipe calls for. I shred 2 1/2 to 3 cups of zucchini and freeze it in zip lock bags for a winter time treat. I think this summer I may even shred 3 1/2 cups for the purpose because I like the zucchini flecks showing up in the bread.

Well having used the last of the farm fresh eggs I get from a friend I was in need. I called my friends up and asked if there was some way we could arrange an egg transfer. She has a daughter the same age as mine so we arrange to meet 1/2 way between our places and have an egg and child hand off. Her husband brought the eggs and his daughter on his way to pick up salvaged brick for the house they are building (mortgage free!). He and I chatted over the trucks (not the fence post) about local eating and communities. We both agreed local eating puts us in contact with others. Building a community strengthens our food supply and food culture or is it local food supplies strengthen our communities….anyway. If your not familiar with this concept please search the web and read about local food supplies, permaculture and food paths. One good example of why this is important is the recent tomato salmonella situation. FDA has no way of knowing where the contaminated food is coming from because we have lost even the simplest of methods of tracking how our food gets to us!

I am counting the days until I can get a home grown tomato. It will be interesting to see who has one first, me, my friends or the farmers market. You can bet that if it's my friends I'll be begging for one (and have a lot of fun) or if it's at the farmers market I will be buying one (and strengthening my local economy) or if it's me I'll enjoy the fruits of my labor and know I just went a few 100 feet to get it (having reduced my carbon footprint)!

Today's Food at Poplar Hill:  Breakfast: Sourdough French Toast (Local eggs).  Lunch:  Homemade Pizza (Homemade crust with locally milled flour, my own tomatoes in the sauce and cheese-no local source for cheese yet). Gosh it's almost time to go start.: : Dinner:  Farmers Market Grilled Veggies and whatever else we manage to grub up.:

Please if you know of any Ohio River Valley Slow Food please post here and let me know the source. Thanks, Christine

 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philp. 4:6-7

On the road to Evansville

Tuesday I needed to take our VW Bug to Evansville, IN to have it repaired. Monday I had decided to eat as local as I could while I was there. I spent the day downtown at Willard Library while they were working on my car and had already decided to try and eat at the Pennylane Coffee House. However, on my way into town I remembered there was a family owned uniquely Evansville doughnut place just on the edge of town. Kempf's Donut Bank. I pulled into the place as I entered town and decided to get coffee and a doughnut. When I entered I noticed they also had bagel's. Well that made my lunch choice very easy! In one stop I purchased breakfast and lunch. It made my work downtown a lot easier because I didn't have to walk to find a place to eat. I just eat on the library steps.

I have know idea if the flour for my doughnut or bagels were local or if my coffee was fair trade, however for a quick trip to Evansville I thought I did pretty well for eating at local establishment. It brings up an idea that I learned last year as I began to try to eat local. It from the eat local challenge and provides a guide for how to go about your commitment.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philp. 4:6-7

Todays Happenings

In the Laundry Room:  It's Monday and after the little shower the solar dryer is up and running!

In the kitchen:  Tacos for Dinner.  Wish it was local, but alas not.  The rest of the week will have local food in the menu.  Oh wait!  I'm making strawberry/rubarb pie.  Local Rubarb.

In the sewing room:  I need to move a button on a tea towel.

In the cleaning closet:  I vacumed the bedroom, dusted the sills, dusted bedroom furniture.  It's been toooo long!

In the garden.  DH and I started a herb garden!  Weeded carrotts.  Pinched off dill flowers and put them in the freezer.

In the shoppe:  Dh put wonderfull window boxes on the deck rail for the herb garden!

In the hospital:  dd9 had to have stitches yesterday in her hand, just before she was off to golf camp.  Ugh!  Poor thing.  Send up prayers.

In the Prayer room:  God's talking to me about living so others can learn from me.  It has so many applications!

On the web:  For S. IN and N. KY people check out my post about local eating.

babysteps

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philp. 4:6-7

Ohio River Valley Local Eating in IN and KY

Even though we have a garden and Farmers Markets local eating can still be a challenge.  In this category I plan to blog about my experiences trying to find local foods and products along the Ohio River Valley in Indiana and Kentucky.  I'll try and stick to the 100 mile diet range and I'll post how I am doing at locating and incorportating local foods into our life.  It is my hope that some of you Kentuckianna like minded people can help me out or I can help you out.  Southern Indiana and Northen Kentucky folks please post your sources and ideas.  First a little about what we are currently doing. 

We live in Perry County Indiana on 20 acers.  We have a large garden with squash, tomatoes, peppers, corn, lettus, etc., etc.  I have shopped two farmers markets.  The Farmers market in Tell City, IN on Saturday mornings (6:30-9) and the Hancock County Kentucky Farmers Market on Saturday mornings (8:00 to sell out).  I am planning on shopping the newest farmers market in Leopold, IN when it opens this Saturday.  I am only 7 miles from Leopold.  I am 14 miles to Tell City, IN and 20 miles to Hancock County, Kentucky.  So I really hope the Leopold, IN market gets up and going.  My food miles would be drasticly reduced.

I am currently eating up as much of what was in last years garden (I froze a lot and canned tomatoes, peppers, tomatoe juice, salsa and green beans).  Pasta salad is a big hit right now.  So I am on the hunt for a local source of pasta for my pasta salad and not just pasta from one of the BIG BOX stores.  If you know of any Ohio River Valley sources for pasta let me know by posting here. 

Taking those babysteps toward local eating, Christine

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philp. 4:6-7

Todays Happenings

In the Laundry Room:  It's Monday and that means laundry day.  I'm cleaning the shower curtain of soap scum.  1 cup vinager with reg. detergent takes care of a lot of it.  All laundry gets hung out on the clothes line and washed in cold water.  Remember these two steps reduce your carbon footprint.  Laundry detergents today (which I need to switch to a greener one) work well with cold water.  Hot water really isn't needed anymore.  The sunshine takes care of getting your whites white. 

In the kitchen:  Cold cuts and bannans for lunch.  Dinner is Morning Star soyburgers and Lambs Quarters salad.  DD with have some Mac and Cheese and carrotts. 

In the cleaning clothes:  We have got to pick up the house.  Company is comming!

In the garden.  Weeded the Pac Choi.  Picked Lambs Quarters.  The dog knocked over a bit of dill so now I need to dry it for use later.

For fun:  swimming today because we missed one day in town last week. 

From the Lord.  In Jerimehia 29 where we are told we have a hope and a future, read before that----it says pray for the prosperity of the city you are in.  The Iserilites were in captivity (someplace they didn't want to be), but God told them pray for your captors and the city you are in.  So if you are currently in a situatuion you don't want to be in and are looking for a hope and a future, I think the Lord wishes us to first pray for the good of our current situation. 

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philp. 4:6-7

Cutting Back in S. IN

Sher asked how we were cutting back.  Here are some of my methods and plans.  First a little about us.  I work at the same public school my dd11 goes to.  My dh works in town (a 14 mile trip).  We have a large garden and have the last two years preserved the harvest both in the freezer and on the shelves. 

I like Sher belive GAS is one way we can cut back.  Previous years you would find my dd and I at the pool in town every afternoon.  The pool is $5.00 for two of us and then you have to buy their unhealthy snacks if you want to eat!  Dh would have already gone to work seperatly in the morning.  So their would be two cars making 28 mile round trips. 

Last week a friend gave me a brilliant idea!  She makes a schedule for her kids in the summer so they know what to expect as far as play dates.  I took the idea one step further and have come up with a schedule for work and play so that we can cut back on gas, know what to expect as far as work (and when we will be at home for the whole day) and when we will have fun.  If we need something right away we call dh who is ALREADY in town and he brings it home after work (sometimes we call him three times a day to put things on the list!).  Here is how it works. 

Monday-is wash day.  Always has been wash day in the summer, but this year their are NO trips to town on Monday.

Tuesday-Fun day in town.  Library trip, swimming at the public pool and oh yes any major groceries needed.

Wednesday-have a friend over day (my dd is the only child at home always has been-we have two kids 12 years apart, they are halves so they never have lived full time in same house).  I will go get my dd's friends that live near by or they can be brought over.  dd chose today to have no friend.  She has played outside, built more onto her tent (it's quite the creation) baked cookies and watched TV.  I get basic stuff done around house.  Today I am boxing up stuff for Methodit Mountain Mission (will take to church Sunday) and folding laundry, cleaning bathroom and blogging.

Thursday-appointment day.  Any appointment.  If I can't make it Thursday, Tuesday is an alternate day, but I like to keep them on this day.  We then swim at the public pool.

Friday-Free swimming at a friends lake.  Have to drive on other side of county, but my friend is a homesteader par excellent and gives me free eggs!  I try and find something she can use and give it to her when I can.  We talk homesteading.  Our dd's are in the same grade at school. 

Saturday is flexable and Sunday is church.  We drive into town for church, and combine it on the way home with anything we need to do. 

This has worked great with my dd.  I posted it Monday on the 'fridg. and today I told her that every day we are home we will follow it.  We have a couple of weeks were we will be traveling, but when home we will try and follow it.  Daughter said YEA!  She likes the swimming part.  We have cut out three swimming days that have to be paid for and the gas to get there. 

Other cutbacks include:  Eating out of the freezer and pantry (very easy when I'm off for the summer).  Eating EGGS in every fashion we can.  Buying only clothes really, really needed.  Adults buy from garage sales and Goodwill when possible.  Turning jeans into shorts.  DD only got one new pair of shorts from store this year.  She loves her converted jeans/shorts. 

Last year we adopted a frugal mindset with respect to garden produce:  NEVER TURN DOWN THE OFFER OF FREE PRODUCE FROM OTHER PEOPLE.  Even if your garden is pumping out plenty you can always can more, freeze more or just plain compost it.  Last year we accepted very, very ripe 'maters.  I made 12-15 quarts of  juice from them.  I only used 3 quarts this year so far, but with this policy I will never have to buy 'mater juice again.   

Christine

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philp. 4:6-7

Dinner Menu June-16

Monday-Hambergers, baked beans, canned peaches-all purchased in the discount bins.

Tuesday-Mexican Egg Buritios.  This is nothing fancy.  Scramble eggs, chop onions, tomatoes, green onions, chillies, whatever mexican fixing you have.  Put in with eggs.  Chop cilantro.  Grate some cheese.  Fill tortilli with egg mixture.  Sprinkle with chopped cilantro and cheese.  Put some salsa verde on it, roll it up like a buritio.  This works well when their are lots of eggs in the house and you have some odds and ends for filling.

Wednesday-Pizza, with homemade dough and sauce.  Topped with watever is around.  It will probably get some swiss chard thinnings (although I'm the only one that likes spinach/chard on my pizza).  DD11 did not like the last pizza sauce I used (It was store bought).  Wahoo.  One point for home cooking.

Thursday-Pasta Salad./Lunchmeat sandwiches  Last years zuc., yellow squash and red peppers all get thrown in.  Along with other veggies hanging round the house.  No fresh things from our garden except a few greens.

Friday-Meatballs, pasta, side salad, maybe some homemade bread sticks.

Saturday-French toast, fruit.

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philp. 4:6-7

Monday Wash

In the summer Monday is laundry day.  I am racing against the rain however.  I've got my solar dryer (a.k.a. clothes lines) working full tilt because we are under a sever thunderstorm watch until 4:00 this afternoon.  Right now sun, sun, sun.  If the sun can finish dryinging everything by 12:00 I should be ok.  I keep every hanger from clothes bought at the store and hang shirts, bras, t-shirts etc. when I'm short on space.  I clip underware in two's on the clip hangers pants come on.  I hang jeans and t-shirts over the deck railing.  I hang clothes on hangers over the decrative flag poles and I even use the basket ball goal.  My husband built me a ceder drying rack that holds about 8 pairs of jeans.  It's great indoors and out.  In the winter it sits by the woodstove 24/7. 

In the kitchen:  Hambergers on the grill for dinner, bake beans and canned peaches.  Everything bought in the scratch and dent piles.  I wanted to can my own peaches last year, but the S. IN fruit crop got hit by a freeze last spring.

In the sewing room:  working on a pre smocked top for my daughter.  Need to make a pair of jeans into shorts.

In the shoppe:  Dh has been finishing a drain system for our home and doing some masonary work on the decrative stone wall on our home.

In town:  taking daughter to gymnastics, going swiming on Tuesday.

In the garden.  I'll pick lettus for tonights tacos.  We fertilized the other day just before a good rain! Yippee. 

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philp. 4:6-7

HOMESCHOOLERS LET ME HELP w/ reading lists

I am an elementary school librarian and off for the summer!  If you have any questions with respect to reading material that would fit into your cirriculum please post or send me a message.  If you post everyone gets the benifit. 

Here is a quick resume.  I used to work in a large public library.  The library I currently manages holds 9,000 works of fiction and non-fiction.  I am always reading children's lit and reviewing what other say.  I love connecting kids with the right book (it really can make a diffrence in their desier to read and their life).  I tend to be very conservative in my recommendations.  Much of what is out their for kids is just not the kind of material we want going into children's hearts (some books are just not one of those "Excellent things"), however, there are also wonderful writers and stories.

One of my passions is helping others find a good book.  If you think I can make reccomendations or suggestions please post or send me a message.  It would make my day to be able to help a parent or a kid.  

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Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philp. 4:6-7

Today's Happenings

Back to Homesteading

Well the Poplars are in full bloom on our hill.  That must mean it's June! Well almost, but it does mean that school is OUT!!! And I'm back to being a summer homesteader.  We really strive to homestead year round but we get most of our work done between May and October when my job doesn't take up so much time. 

My dh put the garden in 100 percent by himeself this year because of my schedule.  We are still eating many of our canned and frozen goods from last year.  I cook as much as I can from scratch during the school year, but summer is when I can really crank it up and make everything from a home grown salad to my own pizza sauce. 

Our summer will be very busy as we have many trips planned.  All very inexpensive family/friend visits and with gas prices only one big trip to Washington D.C.  My daughter just finished a year of American History and we've been planning the trip since Christmas.  We have free housing when we get there and are going to see all the free things when we get there-so our only cost really is gas and food. 

Well heres the Happenings:

In the garden:  Planted our own tomatoes and peppers.  The green beans, carrotts, greens, corn and squash are up.  Dh decided against potatoes this year, but doubled the butternut squash-makes yummy everything.  He put in two more raised beds.  The blackberries are popping flowers!  We didn't eat all the jam this last year so we will be freezing a lot of blackberries because we sure did have a lot of blackberry deserts. 

In the house:  It is a mess!  It requires a good cleaning and will get one while the dd11 (already!) goes off to church camp.

In town:  We have found a consistant local source for eggs in luie of our own chickens.  At $1.00/dozen (friends sell just to get rid of them) you can't afford not to buy them.  Fresh, 100% organic, good for you and cheaper than the $1.89 at the store.  Farmers markets will be starting soon.  I need maple suryp, onions, strawberries, anything fresh.

At play:  Dh has finished a fire pit and beautiful landscaped area next to the house.  We've had several campfires and last night puggie pies!  Dh had blackforest pie and dd had chocolate marshmellow pie.  Horseshoes was on the list of games too.  Dd is getting her shoe close-I watch.  Oh also went to see Prince Caspian-good stuff.  Older kids will like it (ages 8+) very adult themes about faith.

In the kitchen:  Last night was zuc./monteray jack cheese torte-using up those eggs.  I can't remember what is on tonights menu. 

In the sewing room:  Still mending to do!  Need to turn jeans into shorts before dd goes to camp.

In the library:  I just finished Fug 10-a genealogical mystery by Jay Osman.  Very good.  I've got to get a review out.  Also I read Bone Rattler a very early colonial mystery-I learned a lot.  I'm reading a so so mystery right now.  I won't name it.

During Quiet Time:  http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/ .  I discovered a couple of good women's devotionals this morning.  If you haven't check out Crosswalk. 

Taking those babysteps, Christine

Hopeful Spring

One month almost to the day and our seeds are about 2 inches high.  The tomatoes and the California Wonder Peppers are off and running.  Unfortunately the weather here in S. Indiana is not acting like spring at all.  I haven't planted my 1st crop of lettus and my dh has not turned a bit of land.  It is all too wet.  We live 15 miles from the OH river.  It's higher every day.  It just seams if wee can't shake winter.  We are hoping for warmer tempetures over the next few days. 

In the kitchen:  Easter dinner:  Curry roasted chicken, green beans, green onion biscust, mash potaotes w/ gravy.

In the sewing room:  hemming pants!

In the garden: hope to plant letus Monday.

In the shoppe:  dh is getting his boat ready for spring fishing.  He has had to break into next years supply of firewood because the cold has just drug on in southern Indiana. 

Currently Reading:  A biography of Sir Walter Rieghly and Mother Earth News.

Happy Easter, Christine

Some Good Books. What's on your TBR list!?

DD and I are reading one of the Hiccup Horrendous the Third books (How to Cheat a Dragons Curse) by Carissa Cowell. Very good series if you don't mind the occasional mention of Norse gods. Also very good if the kids want to read about dragons, but you find some dragon stuff too dark. Very light hearted-tongue-in-cheek dragon stuff. Vikings are involved, and they often get their history all out of order, but over all very funny-How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse's theme is true friendship. Very nice. I am reading Eat, Pray, Love which my daughter bought me for Valentines day with her own money (mom beams proudly!), I think she thought it was a Christian take on life, it's not totally. If you read Anne Lamont the author Elizabeth Gilbert is left of her philosophically. It's also a travel log if you like reading travel books. Dh is reading: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin about "One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time." It's on my to be Read List.

My To Be Read List. (TBR)

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

Blood Ballad-A Torie O'Shea Mystery

Oh and I forgot the name but a book about a large California Library and what goes on there.  A Librarian's memoire.  Good because I'm a librarian-worked at a large one now I work in a school. 

What's on your TBR?

Seed starting time!

Give up plastic bags forever! Reusable Grocery Bags

Tips for using reusable grocery bags.

How we store potatoes at Poplar Hill

Morningshine asked how we store our potatoes.  Well we've tried diffrent methods and this year I think we hit on the best method yet for our location.  We live in S. IN which really dosen't get a hard soil freeze until around Jan 1-15 so we leave them in the ground.  We watch the plants die back and then dig them them when we need them.  We dig them early for new potatoes and we dig them late for regulars.  We have placed straw over them before to keep the weeds down, but didn't this year and the 'taters were just fine.  There are all kinds of methods of storing potatoes in the ground (check them out on the web), but because of our location we just leave them there were they were planted until we are ready to use them.  We could have dug more on the 1st of Jan., (I knew there was a hard, hard freeze coming) but we didn't we were too busy being lazy.  Had we dug up the rest that were in the ground I would have probably brought them in, left the dirt on them, put them in a basket and stuck them in the coolest room in the house-our bathroom.  I have a big old steamer trunk and I just put the basket in there to keep the 'taters out of the light. 

I see Mourningshines is in in UT and our method probably won't work for her.  Any of you who want to store potatoes long term I suggest, read, read, read, read.  That's the #1 thing I've learned about gardening and food preservation.  My dh and I get better every year, because we spend Nov., Jan and part of Feb. reading about methods, plants and food preservation.  It really does help to figure out your preservation method way in advance.  We use our public library a lot and read many articles off the internet.  I also suspect that potatoes varieties have a lot to do with how well they store with diffrent methods.  I have no idea what last years variety was. 

Some important things I've learned about potatoes

1.  Don't ever eat a green potoatoe-my friend and I haved decided if it's just a little green cut it off and use the white of the 'tater.  Green potatoes are posionis. 

2.  If your 'tater plants start getting flower/fruits.  Cut them off.  Don't let the plant production go into making flowers, fruits and seeds.  You want tubbers!

3.  Hill, Hill, Hill, Bigger Hills mean more potatoes.  We don't nececarly do this, because like I said we are lazy, but it is true.  Check out gardening potatoes in straw, tires and cardboard boxes elsewhere on the web.  Google it!

4.  Don't sweat the failure!

Other Poplar Hill Happenings

In the kitchen: Stuffed Green Peppers, our peppers and our canned tomatoe juice.

In the garden: just got our tomatoe and pepper seeds. Going to start them at the the end of the month. We just used up the last of the cabagge we picked on Jan 1 (used it in shrimp tacos-yummy) and the last of our potatoes we got out of the ground at the same time.

In the shoppe: DH has been working on more rock walls around the property. He has made a "rock sled" to bring the rocks down from the top of the ridge to where the work is being done.

In laundry room: We have a day off from school becuase of ice and I am washing up a storm. I have clothes hanging all over the house everywhere.

The play room: dd10 is having friends over this afternoon to sled. We don't get too many sledding days here in S. IN-she lives in the wrong state.

In the Library: I just finished Cordelia and the Audactious Sommerset Sisters. Good book for any age girl. I cried. It's realistic fiction with a touch of everything in it. Would make a great read aloud for a family with a lot of girls. I'm waiting on Plum Lucky by Evonivich from the library.  Check out my recommended reads at:  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~christinesbooklist/

End of the barrel Potatoes-Whites and Sweets

Great Historical and Genealogical Fiction Reads

We've been asked to list what's on our reading list.  Being a librarian my list is way too long and is always changing.  But I can make some good recomendations in my favorite genre-genealogy fiction.  I have a web site at:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~christinesbooklist/

that has this same list plus book reviews.  It's a non-comercial site sponsored by rootsweb.  If you like history you'll like many of these books.  Most of these are mysteries.  Here's my list, but please stop over and read some of the reviews.  And yes I do spend my winters reading seed catoluges and homesteading books.  I've been reading cookbooks recently.   

THE LIST 

Adams, Deborah. All the Crazy Winters. 1992

Bauer, Joan. Backwater. 1999

Belmond, C.A. A Rather Lovely Ineritance.   2007

Bell, William. Zack. 1999

Berry, Linda. Death and the Family Tree (Out in May 2007)

Biggle, Lloyd, Jr. Where Dead Soldiers Walk. 1994

Black, David. An Impossible Life: a Bobeh Myseh. 1998

Brown, Rita Mae. Murder at Monticello. 1995

Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. 1979

Cooper, J. California. Family. 1991

Davis, Abigil L. Hanging Katherine Garret. Novel Based on the 1737 Trial of a Pequot Woman. 2003

DeLoach, Nora. Mama stalks the past. 1997

Dorner, Marjorie. Blood Kin. 1994 

Fox, Jimmy.
1. Deadly Pedigree. 2001
2. Lineages and Lies. 2002
3. Jackpot Blood. 2004

George, Anne. Murder Runs in the Family. 1997

Grace, Katherine. Random Descent. 1979

Grimes, Martha. The Horse You Came in On. 1994

Hanson, Rick. Splitting Heirs. 1997

Harrington, Jonathan Harrington. The Death of Cousin Rose. 2000.

Hess, Joan.
1. Death By the Light of the Moon. 1992
2. A Holly, Jolly Murder. 1997

James, P.D. Innocent Blood. 2001

Knight, Alanna.
1. Blood Line. 1989
2. Killing Cousins: an Isnpector Faro Mystery. 1992

Kunz, Kathleen. Murder Once Removed. 1993

Landrum, Graham.
1. The Famous DAR Murder Mystery. 1992
2. The Famous Historical Society Murder Mystery. 1996

Martin, Lee.
1. Inherited Murder.
2. 1994 Genealogy of Murder. 1996

MacPherson, Rett
1. Family Skeletons. 1996
2. A Veiled Antiquity. 1998
3. A Comedy of Heirs. 1999
4. A Misty Mourning. 2000.
5. Killing Cousins. 2002.
6. Blood relations. 2003.
7. In Sheep's Clothing. 2004
8. Dead Man Running. 2006
9. Died in the Wool. 2007

Morris, Dorothy. Secret Sins of the Mothers. 1999

Miller, Alex. The Ancestor Game. 1992

Muller, Marcia. Listen to the Silence. 2001

Stratton, Gene. Killing Cousins. 1989

Patterson, Freda Carley. Over My Dead Body. 1997

Palliser, Charles. The Quincunx. 1990

Sears, Richard. Genealogy of Murder. 2002

Westfall, Patricia T. Mother of the Bride. 1998

Wright, Lauriai. Mother Love: a Karl Alberg Mystery. 1995