Just west of a place out in the middle of nowhere on the Utah/Arizona border called Fort Pearce is a old pioneer trail. In this remote place on this mostly forgotten trail are rocks where at a time in the old west travelers left their mark on red stone in wagon wheel grease. Those marks […]
With the news that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has acquired the Kirtland temple and additional historic sites in Nauvoo the question has come in about our family connections to Kirtland. The individual who comes immediately to mind is Grandfather Gardner Snow, who is the great-grandfather of Muriel Snow, wife of William […]
Of all the projects at the end of Dad’s life nothing was more passionate to him than the history he was writing of my Mother. He attacked it in typical Dad fashion. He wrote an outline, he gave each salient section an objective, he selected pictures and started jotting down notes of things he did […]
It is kind of stunning how the term “AI” has taken over RootsTech this year. AI stands for Artificial Intelligence and it is revolutionizing the Internet and nearly every industry that uses it. In my book, and I’m going to go on an old man rant here, AI is what gives us toilets that flush […]
When Gabriel and Joanne Westover of Taunton, England married in 1618 they likely had no idea how larger events would impact their family. A son, John, was born in 1619. Then came a daughter, Johanne. Another son came in 1622, named Gabriel III, and another, named Richard, was born in 1623. Then there is a […]