Perhaps the most important thing I need to do this month is not directly a genealogy project, but certainly is related to my ability to do online genealogy research. My body has a love/hate relationship with the computer, currently hitting …
I wrote years ago about the Yellin children and a brief summary of their arrivals in the U.S. (here), but am prompted to write more about Jeanette (Scheine Toby) today. Recently Cousin Ron (another family researcher) has sent around an …
Happy New Year everyone! Here’s to a wonderful year for all of us! I just briefly scanned my last year’s January post and see I have not managed to focus on at least one of the goals I set. Specifically, …
I can’t believe that it is already December! This year is going so fast! November passed nicely, with a lovely Thanksgiving family get-together just last week, and a few genealogy tasks accomplished. For this month I have just a couple …
Having made it through their first winter in Iowa, J.W. and Laura were ready to take up the spring work of clearing some land for a garden and then more land to be planted in grain in the fall. They …
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