About six months ago, all of Saunders County’s deeds, marriage, probate and other records were made available online via familysearch.org.1 It’s a monstrous collection containing over 1,600 books and files of images. I was able to use the deed indexes and deed books to finally sort through how my great-great-grandfather Christian Pearson distributed his land […]
Frasier Siblings
I was looking through Grandma Thelma’s photo album last week and noticed several fun photos of Grandma and her siblings through the years.
Photo Album: 1923 Road Trip
Photos taken by Clarinda (Hanson) Rudeen on a belated honeymoon trip in August, 1923. The photos were described in a five-part series. link to Part 1 in this series link to Part 2 in this series link to Part 3 in this series link to Part 4 in this series link to Part 5 in […]
Are you my cousin? Some thoughts about our shared DNA…
I know that many readers of this blog are cousins to me and Dale and many of you have had your DNA tested on Ancestry or other services. I even see some of your names or user IDs come up when I look at DNA match lists. Many of you are probably wondering if you’re […]
1923 Road Trip – part 5
In this last installment of the Road Trip, we follow the Rudeens and Hansons on the return trip.