Fast forward more than three decades to 2019… I have now been married to Sheepdog for 26 years and together we have five incredible kids. My life is amazing by every standard, but I am definitely the boring one on the team. Sheepdog has jumped out of an airplane, flies downhill on a...
Trail of Tears. Removal of the Cherokees and the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminoles (the Five Civilized Tribes) from the Southeast to Oklahoma Territory. Lieawatha Warren’s white trash ancestor was one of the goons who forcibly moved them. Lieawatha Harris herself stole a scholarship from a...
When you delve into great grandparent lineage, things start to get hazy. While it is not impossible to claim citizenship from a great grandparent that was born in Ireland, let’s just say it’s harder to find the necessary paperwork to prove that, well, your ancestor was born there. You...
What remained was in many ways a new California. Nearly one-eighth of the state now traces its ancestry to the Okies; in the San Joaquin Valley, the proportion is nearly one-half. The Central Valley “was not biscuit-and-gravy country before the Okies,” says Gerald Haslam, an English p...