Genealogy by Brecca

08/28/2025

I’ve enjoyed playing with Grok’s new Imagine feature. I animated this four generation photo of Nana, Grandma, Mom, and myself. Circa 1996. It’s wonderful to see my Nana and Grandma in motion again ❤️ As you all know, if it weren’t for them, I’d have never been bitten by the genealogy bug in the first place! I owe them everything.

08/14/2025

This is an ad I originally shared in 2022. I’ve been at this for 25 years now as of 2025. Still, feel free to share this as much and as often as possible! 🩷

My name is Brecca and I've been doing genealogy for 22 years as of 2022. I started my own family tree when I was 7 years old in 2000 to which I credit my late Great-Grandmother, Anna (Thompson) Sandefur as my inspiration. I was born and raised here in Henderson, KY, and I'm proud to say my roots run quite deep here!

I started up Genealogy by Brecca in January of 2017 and I've been going strong ever since. I love not just working on my own family tree, but the trees of others. I love anything and everything to do with family history, cemeteries, local history, and more. Nothing thrills me more than helping someone to figure out not just where they come from, but who they come from.

I also run and operate Henderson KY Cemetery Research Group & WKM Cemetery Research. (WKM standing for Western KY Metro). If cemeteries are something that interests you - I highly recommend joining the groups. :) I post here on my page and in the group quite frequently-- whether it be about genealogy goodies in my own family tree, another local Hendersonians tree, or something interesting I've found in a cemetery.

After 22 years - I've discovered that I'm related to (almost) everyone here in Henderson whether it be through the Blanford's, LaRue's, Sandefur's, Moss's, Hazelwood's, Gibson's, Thompson's, Nally's, Byrd's, or the umpteen other last names in my direct lineage.

If y'all wouldn't mind sharing this with your family and friends, that would mean the world to me. Thank you all so much. ❤️

08/08/2025

Y’all recall the photo I shared of Papa Dick and his apples— I used the new Grok Imagine feature and animated it. Mom got a great big grin out of it and said “that’s so neat!” So I thought I’d share it with everyone else. ❤️

07/24/2025

I haven’t introduced y’all to our newest addition. She brings us back up to 8. I found her in our landscaping screaming on what was the hottest day of the summer (at the time) on June 23rd. I’ve named her Freya Geneva. ❤️ She is a tiny nightmare with a lot of personality 😂 She’s a spoiled princess already. Her and Marcel play together, and she plays with Jace as well. The others are still getting used to her.

07/16/2025

I didn’t share over here last month — but my Mom attended her 45th High School Reunion. She’d never been to one until 2021, when they had their “40th +1” reunion. Mom graduated a year ahead of schedule in 1980, a class size of 610. To this day, HCHS has never had another class that size. Mom graduated 153 out of 610. Not too bad!

Kudos to everyone who makes the reunion possible— especially to Waverlyn. I know reunions are things spouses usually attend but for Mama, it’s always me 😂 Thanks for making me feel so welcome! My high school class hasn’t ever had a reunion and I honestly don’t think we ever will lol.

With both of our healths, it was a challenge for both of us but we pushed through. I knew she’d have been so upset with herself had she not gone. We definitely paid for it for days afterward but it’s a memory she has and that’s important!

Rep your graduating class below if you’d like! Have you been to a reunion? Tell me about some fun reunion experiences! If you’ve never been to one, tell me about a favorite memory you have from high school? 🙂