Sunday, January 27, 2019

Where in the World are Jens and Katrina Jensen?

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The Christensen sisters, Laura and Katrina, are proving to be some of the biggest challenges I've had as a family historian.  After week...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

The "Bob WeHadABabyItsABoy" Method for Family History

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This family history stuff is going to send me to the poorhouse. Remember "Person-to-Person" phone calls?  For you youngsters who...
Friday, January 18, 2019

One Question Resolved, Many More Raised (Of Course)

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    For years, I ran across undocumented information stating that my 4th gr-grandfather, Joseph Nickerson, was a War of 1812 veteran.  Every...
Tuesday, January 15, 2019

A Silent Testament to a Story Nearly Forgotten

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The photo to the left is of my grandparents, Bill and Lillian Knutz, taken sometime prior to 1957, the year their farm home burned to the gr...
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018

The Cistern From Hell

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Few things terrified me as a kid like the thought of the cistern out at the farm.  We used to love to go out there with Grandpa and search ...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Nathan Graves and the "Indian Cancer Plaster"

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Nathan Graves had cancer.  And he was desperate. He was about 53 years old when the cancer first appeared on his right cheek, but it...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Every Kid Needs an Uncle Don

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Recently I was working on a set of autobiography questions, one of them being "What is your earliest memory?"   Well, the first th...