In this video Doris talks about how she does genealogical research. So, "How did you get started, Doris.“ "You start with yourself. Then you put down your mother and father because you know that.” Doris is following the Grandmother Miller line and compiling one of her famous notebooks.
But then she and Roger take us on their journey to find the Miller gravestones she had heard about supposedly at an Iowa town now long gone called Glendon. Stopping at the local café for the best ice cream in town, the only ice cream in town, the folks laugh at her question if any now was a Miller, “We’re all Millers here.” They assigned Raymond for lead them. On the way they past a few old buildings, the old town they found out later; finally, winding around the country roads, they arrive at the Glendon cemetery. Their hope—to find Roseann Miller’s gravestone.
In part 2 Doris takes us up 4 generations to Hanna and her mother Roseann Fisk. The timelines give a more life to person in the family tree. To the class society of Britain's past, importance derived from a person's pedigree. The Fisk name going back to England was particularly important, and on her trip to England with Dorothea, Doris tells the story of of bumping into a Fisk.
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