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- April 11, 2024
Lessons of Resilience and Independence – The Hen Party
Many of us are familiar with the hardships our ancestors endured while crossing the Oregon Trail. Similarly, we have learned…
- April 3, 2024
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…
- March 25, 2024
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…
- February 20, 2024
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…
- February 14, 2024
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…
- February 3, 2024
Crossings at Weiser Flats
Dead Ox Flat, Poverty Flat, Weiser Flat. A "flat" is a stretch of land, usually near water, low level land…
- January 24, 2024
The Queen of Pioneers
When we read the memoirs, diaries, and other accounts of our ancestors, we often see oblique references to the people…
- January 17, 2024
The Gathering of Our Family Stories
I sat with my father for five days, watching him slowly and peacefully leave our lives. As one friend said,…
- December 19, 2023
Two Families, One Common Ancestor, Two Hundred Miles Apart
The Imnaha River of Northeastern Oregon. Surrounded by some of the most spectacular and rugged landscapes in the Pacific Northwest,…
- November 14, 2023
When the Wildlife Was Wild…
The interview above took place in 1989 and contains Howard's memories related to working for the Oregon State Police's Game…
- November 1, 2023
Falling Prey to the Seduction of Family Connections
Can you name the famous descendants of the Mayflower passengers? (answers) In the previous blog, The Pursuit of Family Connections,…