April 3, 2024For many of us who research family and history, there is often one person who alludes us for years, even…
March 25, 2024I have hand-written letters composed by my mother, where she wrote to get family information, birth records, or simply writing…
February 20, 2024In May 1845 the Savannah Oregon Emigrating Society, comprised of 100 armed men, 293 emigrants in 66 wagons, 170 guns…
February 14, 2024In a previous article I gave you An Unsolved Mystery in the Imnaha. In that story I presented a murder…
February 3, 2024Dead Ox Flat, Poverty Flat, Weiser Flat. A "flat" is a stretch of land, usually near water, low level land…
January 24, 2024When we read the memoirs, diaries, and other accounts of our ancestors, we often see oblique references to the people…
January 22, 2024In "Two Families, One Common Ancestor, Two Hundred Miles Apart" I introduced a quote by a little girl named Arlene,…
January 17, 2024I sat with my father for five days, watching him slowly and peacefully leave our lives. As one friend said,…
January 2, 2024Here's a test of your genealogical research skills. It's been 90 years since Martin Hibbs was murdered along Granite Creek…
December 26, 2023I am continually amazed at the connections between families, stories, and histories. As I bring these stories alive, there starts…
December 24, 2023An account written by Arlene Blevans Reams of her life in Oregon (unedited) In a previous story of mine, "Two…
December 22, 2023Strawberry School
