The Oregon Trail Genealogy Blog

Many of us are familiar with the hardships our ancestors endured while crossing the Oregon Trail. Similarly, we have learned…

For many of us who research family and history, there is often one person who alludes us for years, even…

I have hand-written letters composed by my mother, where she wrote to get family information, birth records, or simply writing…

In May 1845 the Savannah Oregon Emigrating Society, comprised of 100 armed men, 293 emigrants in 66 wagons, 170 guns…

In a previous article I gave you An Unsolved Mystery in the Imnaha. In that story I presented a murder…

Dead Ox Flat, Poverty Flat, Weiser Flat. A "flat" is a stretch of land, usually near water, low level land…