“Finding Family” tells a gripping, inspirational story, but it also does more: It provides a genuinely useful self-help guide for adopted people, genealogists and anyone else who wants to explore their personal history. –Adam Pertman, former Executive Director, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Insti...
While each family search is different, I often find myself following the same basic steps when beginning to research a newfamily treeonline. As I search, I also keep a research log noting the places I've searched, the information I find (or didn't find), and asource citationfor each p...
This city fellah, you heard him, I guess, he says they don’t have any use for this old house and I can stay here as long as I’m above ground and then he’ll arrange for me to be buried right beside you. He promised you and I could sleep under the old black walnut tree ...
The Museum of Northwest Colorado (http://www.museumnwco.org) recently added a permanent exhibit on the gold prospecting and mining history of that part of our state. This area is not well known for gold since there was no significant gold rush around these parts. The historical prospectors...
To children, anything that happened before they were born is family history. I have told my children about how my husband and I met, my brother and I making a mudhole in the backyard as kids, their grandma who rode her horse in a parade, their great-uncle’s pet monkey, their great...
then tied delicious morsels to the end of the strings and left them out for the Widow Bolte’s chickens to find and eat. When they did, it tied the chickens to each other like a string of fish, and in their panic, they wrapped themselves around the branch of a tree. The hens laid...
form, using as a metaphor a large tree that grew outside her window. She had often expressed a wish that she could draw that tree, as she discussed its form and its dynamic and constantly changing nature. In an interview with Teachers College Record, Sousanis said: “Maxine’s philosophy ...
excitement for 2024 without its clean slate and plethora of possibilities waiting in the wings to take flight were marred by an unfortunate event and the recent death of my best friend. Never in the history of my life have I entered a new year in a state of disarray, discomfort, and ...
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An oversized oak tree sat in the front yard. Her trunk thick and branches hovering over the house as though she were protecting it. On nice days I would sit on the steps and smoke a spliff underneath her. I never quite understood why people chopped trees down. Maybe people considered them...