Gone-Away Lake
Here along the Front Range we had a hard summer, the man against nature theme was unrelenting in June, with fires burning in and out of control. In Aurora in July, 58 people were wounded and 12 murdered by...
Read moreThoughts about Fires and Genealogy
I think I measured once and it is three miles from our house to the high school, a staging area for the fire fighters for the Flagstaff fire. The fire was actually more behind Bear Mountain in Skunk Canyon...
Read moreSome Things are Worth the Extra Money
I Like Milk I have always liked milk. Growing up in a family of six with five huge milk drinkers, I can’t imagine how many gallons we went through in a week. When I went to college, I drank...
Read moreResearching Conrad Brown, Charles Gile Willson or William Monroe Miller
When Christina Brown wife of Conrad Brown appeared in the will of Balthaser Henritze, my heart sank a bit at the thought of tracking down Browns. However, it wasn’t so bad, the family generally stayed in Reading and Conrad...
Read moreHundred of Families and Thousands of People Located in the 1940 Census
In the last 90 days, I have searched and read the 1940 federal population census for hundreds of families and located thousands of people in multiple states, some indexed, some not. Ancestry has indexed: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware,...
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