An online friend asked me the other day where I have gone. He noticed that my activity on social media was much less than what it has been in the past. “All you talk about are your kids or family history”, he said. These days I take that as a high compliment. Among the many […]
Tonight I went fishin’ for a while. I don’t get nearly enough opportunity to do that –“fishin’” as it relates to family history. Here’s how it works: I go to FamilySearch or Ancestry and enter very broad search terms – say, a surname like “Smith”. Then I sort out all the results to drill down […]
I was 17 when I graduated from high school and I had to wait until I was 19 to serve a mission. That gave me a full year to pursue some college. I vividly recall a freshman history class where a professor during a lecture about the American Indian gave a passing opinion of Brigham […]
Certain dates tend to stick in the minds of most avid family historians. 1890, of course, is notorious. That year of the federal census was mostly lost to history due to a fire in 1921 that wiped out most of the records. Nearly every family has a missing piece of information tied to that census […]
Our ward is headed to the Temple this weekend, a combination of Ward Temple Night and Youth Baptisms. I volunteered some family names for the kids to do, forgetting that the well was temporarily dry for baptisms. We’ve been doing a lot of baptizing the past several months. I so spent some evening hours this […]