Stories from Contributors
May 2, 2024I was researching the Cant Family and the Scottish community around Dayville, which led me to Murdock Murchison, which led…
February 27, 2024Isolation was a common feature for the scattered residents in the far reaches of the PNW. Until the 1910s, most…
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 Families,…
November 29, 2023The following account was written by Sarah A. Manwaring (transcribed from the original by family) as she and her family…
October 4, 2023In family research, while we dredge through archives, untangle archaic script in old documents, and build our family trees, there…
September 28, 2023I have yet to find an Oregon Trail diary written by a member of the train that my Fisk family…
- July 24, 2023
~Hannah Maria Goddard (1828-1919) Wife of husband of 2nd cousin four times removed.At 18 years old, Hanna first departed in 1846,…
- July 14, 2023
The account of this trip is taken from a journal kept by C. A. Brandt. He kept a daily account…
- July 10, 2023
Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 77, No. 4 (Dec., 1976), pp. 308-340
