The Oregon Trail Genealogy Blog

Finding Foot Boppin’ Billies in the Family
For many of us who research family and history, there is often one person who alludes us for years, even…
JSTOR – An Underappreciated Resource
I have hand-written letters composed by my mother, where she wrote to get family information, birth records, or simply writing…
Connections in Butler Basin – A Web of Pioneering Families
In May 1845 the Savannah Oregon Emigrating Society, comprised of 100 armed men, 293 emigrants in 66 wagons, 170 guns…
What Happens in Them Hills, Stays in Them Hills…
In a previous article I gave you An Unsolved Mystery in the Imnaha. In that story I presented a murder…
Crossings at Weiser Flats
Dead Ox Flat, Poverty Flat, Weiser Flat. A "flat" is a stretch of land, usually near water, low level land…
The Queen of Pioneers
When we read the memoirs, diaries, and other accounts of our ancestors, we often see oblique references to the people…