Three Generations In 1906, three generations of the Peelle family moved to the Fish farm southeast of Hiatville, Kansas.  The two-story house was nestled amongst...

  I don’t know if my Thomas ancestors lived near the most relatives of any of my family lines or not.  However, according to reports...

    Arthur Reid Thomson was only 16 years of age when he boarded a ship for America.  His grandfather, he claimed, was sending him...

    What if DNA hadn’t been discovered ?  Similarly, what if the United States was like some other countries that prohibited or severely limited...

I find that many of the stories that I write are about family secrets or at a minimum - things that were taboo or just...

    A few years back, I went to a reunion for my mother-in-law’s family.  I took charts (including the tri-fold shown above), my computer,...

  My McCracken lineage has always been something of a mystery.  My great-great grandfather Lemuel Lawrence McCracken was so hard to trace that I joked...

    Churches provide a space where anyone is free to wander in and join the congregation. They also often provide space for activities –...

  This story starts with a Seaman’s Certificate and ends with orphans, “servants,” George Washington’s hair, and a body donated to science.    The Certificate...

This is a collection of images of cars various families have owned going back into the 1960s and earlier.  Not nearly all the cars that...