Are You Intensely Curious?
Are You Intensely Curious?
Colonial patriots may have seen the end of the war in sight if they could just dislodge the British from the South. Count Pulaski had left General George Washington’s side to create the first calvary that was called Pulaski’s Legion…
Arthur Parr was born July 5, 1758, in Rowan, North Carolina. He was the first son of Arthur Parr (Maryland) and Margaret Wright (Hillsboro, North Carolina). When Arthur was 6 years old, his father died from injuries received transporting an…
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.…
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…
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…