The Beginning Blog

Part of the Zielke Girls' Smokey Mountains Getaway
Back Row: Nan, Kathy, Jeanine, Megan, Elaine
Front Row: Marcia, Beth, Grace

Welcome to Aunt Grace's blog! I am Carol Zielke Sloan, the daughter of Grace's brother Ray. As I have a passion for writing and family history, combined with a fear of losing all of Aunt Grace's memories, I will be the official author of her blog; relating stories that may be of interest to you and keeping Zielke/Staffeldt history alive!

As I publish each blog post, I will put a link on our Zielke Zone Facebook page, but you can follow the blog directly from this post. Your comments or questions are welcome at the bottom of the posts and if you have follow up questions, Aunt Grace will be able to answer those in the blog comments as well.

I am looking forward to this venture with Aunt Grace and hope that I will be able to do justice to her memories as we all learn about how the past may have affected our present and future.