iGenealogy Blog

About 16 years ago, at a Gubler family reunion, we (the kids) decided to reenact the life story of our ancestor Susanna Mehitable Rogers Sangiovanni Pickett Keate.  Quite a long name, but she filled it with such an interesting life.  From being born in Montreal, growing up first in rural Quebec and then moving to New York City, marrying an Italian Napoleonic revolutionary, moving to England, joining the LDS (Mormon) church and moving back, and eventually crossing the plains with her two sons and dying at the age of 91 in St. George, Utah, she led a very exciting and unusual life for a woman of her time.  My mom’s cousin Jane Rae Topham has written a book about her life entitled “In Search of Living Water”.  However, this blog is about her scoundrel of a husband, William Pickett. (more…)