June 6, 2025 As a volunteer researcher, I’ve received lots of requests for obituary look ups over the years. If the requester had a date of death, checking in the local papers for an obit was a simple matter. When I began my volunteering, most of the local historic newspapers were not digitized. They …
Kristiania
May 30, 2025 You never know what you’ll find when you do genealogy. Just this week I realized that I’ve never really known the name of the city where my paternal grandmother grew up and lived until she was twenty-seven. I thought I knew that it was Oslo, Norway. Turns out I was wrong. …
Genealogy and Yellow Roses
May 23, 2025 One of my earliest memories is the yellow roses that grew at our town cemetery. This is where my grandparents, great grandparents and assorted aunts, uncles and cousins are buried. Every Memorial Day, we visited the cemetery. It was overrun with cheat grass and cacti, but here and there a huge …