Farrier, Nita

Beginning in 1949, Nita Farrier lived in Europe for two and a half years, serving as a secretary to the US Occupation Forces in Vienna, Austria. Following her death in 2001, the journals of her travels and experiences in Europe were discovered in a loose-leaf notebook. The Grande Tour is a compilation of her journals. Nita began her interest in genealogy at about the age of 25, sparked by a journal kept by her belated mother titled "Reminiscences." She became a life-long devotee of the science of genealogic research, seeing herself a much cooler "Columbo," unraveling the confluences of societa...