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US Presidents in Big Springs

As I was reading a book on Harry Truman, 33rd President of the United States, I realized that on his 1948 Whistlestop Train tour he simply had to have go through my home town of Big Springs, NE. This link (https://archive.org/details/55304HarryTrumanFootage) has some images from his tour in June of 1848 with pictures from Kearney,Continue reading “US Presidents in Big Springs”

Jury Duty and James Bayne

As we do genealogy research it’s not uncommon to look in newspapers and court documents to see where our ancestors may be mentioned. In most cases we find a will, a probate, maybe some land records or occasional dispute with the neighbors. In this case James Bayne (my 2X Great Grandfather) actually served as aContinue reading “Jury Duty and James Bayne”

DNA Matches May Help Solve A Mystery

I don’t know if anyone who follows this blog watches “Finding Your Roots” the PBS show with Henry Louis Gates, but I love watching how they use DNA evidence to help find branches of a family tree sometimes with what seemed to be impossible odds. I may have used some DNA evidence here recently toContinue reading “DNA Matches May Help Solve A Mystery”

DAR Approvals and other Updates

Some of the additional DAR Patriots I have been waiting on were approved. I now have Zachariah Beall, Richard Evans, Amasa Harvey and Robert Harvey added to my list. All of these patriots are tied to Lena Livermore who is the mother of Gladys Hagerdon Anderson my Great Grandmother. I still have a couple moreContinue reading “DAR Approvals and other Updates”

DAR Updates and Motivation

Somehow the beginning of this year has been really busy. I have a lot of good intentions for genealogy work, and so far, not much progress. Not for a lack of projects to do that’s for sure. Sometimes it just takes an event of some sort to get things motivated again. I recently received noticeContinue reading “DAR Updates and Motivation”

Nebraska Century Farm / Pioneer Award

I started work on this last year to see if our family qualified for the Aksarben Pioneer Award that recognizes farm families that have held the same ground in the family for 100 years or 150 years. After a quick stop at the county courthouse in Deuel County it looks like the Mauser family hasContinue reading “Nebraska Century Farm / Pioneer Award”

Baseball!

Sometimes family history is a bit random in what I’m looking at and why. For whatever reason, when I was at the library picking up books for our Christmas travels, I was browsing the non-fiction and saw a book on Mickey Mantle. I’ve never really been a huge baseball fan, but I knew that DadContinue reading “Baseball!”

Christmas Fun

It is almost Christmas, and it looks like this may be my final post for 2022. I have a backlog of things to share and hopefully I can get back to a regular schedule in 2023 and share all the new updates plus get some additional research completed and learn a few new things. AContinue reading “Christmas Fun”

Somehow time got away from me

I just realized that it has been about 6 weeks from the date of my last post. I don’t know how that much time went by. I haven’t dropped my research or dropped off the face of the earth, but somehow the last few weeks had other thinks that took up all of my time.Continue reading “Somehow time got away from me”

Williams and Owens Family in Wales

The research project on Cory’s ancestors in Wales has been received. So exciting! Research in Wales is tricky as it seems like there are just a few given names used and at points in history a patronymic surname system. In Wales this would have been Owen mab William, or Owen Son of William. Knowing thatContinue reading “Williams and Owens Family in Wales”