Over the last two years, both of my parents have passed away. As an only child of middle class parents who managed their money well, if very conservatively, I’m left in a fairly secure financial position. We’re not talking Powerball…
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Well, it’s finally happened. I’ve finally made the return to graduate school. It’s been almost exactly 7 years since I finished my first master’s degree, and I now have the funds, time, and security to pursue another degree. Those of you…
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The week of September 3, I travelled to Salt Lake City to undertake some research at the Family History Library. Old letters between family members had revealed a complicated web of full, half, and step siblings among my great-great-grandmother, Auguste…
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Let’s see… I spent most of Sunday puttering around Burlington, taking pictures of headstones and the like. Here’s the old iron works plant where my grandfather worked as a boiler maker. I took all of one picture on Monday, of…
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Dear Diary, Today I was kidnapped by hillfolk, never to be seen again. It was the best day ever! Okay, not really, but I drove across the Ozarks, so I had to drop that reference. The last two days haven’t…
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I imagine this blog will get a lot more use since I lifted my mental restriction of only using it for genealogical things. But, in any case, the first post in almost two years is still genealogy related. Why? Because…
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Almost a year after I last utilized this blog, I finally have something interesting to post. It would seem I have a scandal on my hands. Either a scandal or an extremely bizarre clerical error. About a year ago, I…
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