We are excited to announce our October 2025 trip to the Midwest Genealogy Center at the Mid-Continent Library in Independence, Missouri. Details on our announcement page. Registration is limited.
The lucky numbers don’t mean much to me, but the “You will always be surrounded by true friends” fortune cookie fortune I found on an isolated bit of pavement at a local lake struck me as ironic. It was all by itself. That reminded me that while many of our ancestors settled in areas where they knew people from “back home,” some did not. It is always worth looking at those people who interacted with our ancestor in a new area to see if there’s some connection they had in an area of previous residence. However sometimes there was no familial or friendship connection to people in the new area. Some people just struck off in an entirely new locations without human connection from the past. It is […]
Check out our upcoming AI and Probate Classes–details on our announcement page.
Need a writing prompt for your own memories? Is there a sound that reminds you of your childhood? For me it is a rooster crowing. My parents did not have chickens on their farm, but my paternal grandmother did and for some reason the sound of a rooster crowing reminds me of growing up more than anything else.
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