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.…
Are You Intensely Curious?
Are You Intensely Curious?
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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…
Cando Cemetery Mystery
The Sacred Heart Cemetery in Cando, North Dakota, holds the graves of my great-great-grandparents, William Michael McGee and Isabel/Isabella Carney. In 2008, my 3rd cousin, Rita Matejka, went to Cando and cleaned up the gravestones and chopped away at the…
Homestead National Monument & Homestead ACT of 1862
In Beatrice, Nebraska, the National Parks Service has a National Monument dedicated to the Homestead Act of 1862. The Homestead Act was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, after 11 states had seceded from the Union. Passing…
Why History?
In school, I was never interested in history. Actually, I was rarely engrossed in any type of class that didn’t involve figuring things out. History class was all about events with dates to be memorized – not something to be…