I am pleased to share with you a piece written by Norman’s Uncle Jack about life on a wheat farm in Eastern Washington in the early part of the twentieth century. This was written for a family reunion in 1992. …
The theme for this month’s COG is to tell the story of a document that helped you break through a brick wall in the pursuit of truth in genealogy. I thought about it for a while and realized that, while …
I’ve been sorting through yet another pile of mixed pictures, snapshots, ephemera, a letter or two (recent), etc. Somehow this pile landed on my desk. It may be an orphan-pile, left over from the boxes I was going through earlier …
The first half of this post is Pat’s, the second half is Judy’s The Salt name is not an easy one to research, as you might imagine. Salt Lake City always comes up when you search. As does salt lick, …
To set the stage as I start this fourth in the Wakeman series (also described in the first one): this is a description of life in the early 1900s in a small north-central Ohio village. My mother interviewed and taped …