Thursday, April 30, 2020

Rediscovering the Personal in Vintage Art: Christine B. Fielding

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    Art and Artifact as Family History Over the past years I have collected a few small vertical watercolor or oil paintings made by h...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks (Week 13): In the News

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Judge Winje and the Curious Case of Mortification My great great grandmother Thibertine's second husband, Eric Larson Winje, was a s...
Saturday, March 23, 2019

Those Who Served in the Great War: Private Odin Johnson

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  A Minnesota Doughboy in WWI France Odin Johnson, the fifth child out of ten born to Ole Martin Johnson and Malla (Larson) Johnson...

Commemorating Family Members Who Served in the Great War

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WWI era newspaper photo from Smithsonian Magazine (public domain) It has now been more than 100 years since the end of the Great War, al...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks (Week 12): 12

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12 Reasons Why I Love Genealogy and Family History I am an occasional list maker, and this topic ("12") lends itself to just...
Monday, February 25, 2019

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks (Week 9): In the Courthouse

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Where There's a Will Book, There's a Way: Ole M. Johnson and an Unexpected Guardianship Most of my American family history re...
Monday, February 18, 2019

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks (Week 8): Family Photo

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The Girl Inside My Mother My mother, Doris (right), with her Aunt Stella in March 1969.  El Cerrito, CA. I recently ran across a p...
Thursday, February 14, 2019

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks (Week 7): Love

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Old-Fashioned Love and Apple Pie Ole Johnson weds Malla Larson, Feb. 28, 1886. When I realized I would be writing about love for...