Category Family Stories

What about those Callaghan/Callahan Siblings?

Sometimes it helps to keep asking questions about family puzzles.  Sometimes it helps to just be lucky.  And other times, it takes having knowledgeable strangers just knowing where to look for answers.  This time it took all of the above.…

Fish in Nebraska

Researching our family is always tricky for a couple of reasons -1) They continuously move and have for hundreds of years, and 2) they re-use first names to a ridiculous degree. And then we have the Fish and Work problem.…

Learning About Nebraska Homesteads

To learn about Nebraska homesteads, I had to learn something new from Towner County, North Dakota’s Clerk of Court, Jolene Hoffert.  Her office was terrific in looking up all kinds of land records for my McGee ancestors.  When they found…