I am spending a lot of time working on the history of my parents. It is a complex project. Anyone attempting to write the history of people they love is confronted with great challenges. How do you tell the story and get it right? How do you handle weaknesses? How do you handle their conflicts? […]
My 9th great grandfather on my maternal line is a man named Thomas Cornell. He was born on 21 October 1627 in Saffron Walden, England. He was the 4th of 13 children of Thomas and Rebecca Cornell. The Cornells emigrated to Boston when Thomas was just 11 years old and settled in Boston, where his […]
Sandy and I had the chance to visit Manti this week for the temple open house. When the renovation work was announced a couple of years ago being able to see the Manti Temple before rededication quickly became a bucket list item. But something unexpected happened to me on this visit to Manti. It reminded […]
In April of 2021 we took a road trip to Southern Utah. It would be my Dad’s final road trip, an exploration of family history. It was his desire to connect the names and dates on the family tree to places – places even that he was familiar with from his first years growing up […]
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 […]