Family History Nuggets

The itch to write has been bugging me for too, too long. So here I am once again blogging about my family history research after a break of ...

Both my paternal and maternal grandparents lost their first child only two days after they were born. With this blog post, I am lighting two...

My great-grandfather Frank J. Kain (pamapa) was a member of the Knights of Columbus in Creighton, NE. I know this thanks to the book "K...

 When I think of  "Lucky," I think of my parents' marriage of sixty-two years. You cannot get any luckier than to find someone...

 First off, am I the only one who did not know that there is a song called "Gone Too Soon" by an artist called Week Nine? Am I the...

 I need to get caught up with the 52 Ancestors prompts. I plan to do several this week until I can get caught up. We'll see how this goe...

Another major genealogy brick wall has tumbled to the ground. I have managed to locate a Dutch birth record for my 2nd great grandfather, Ev...

I have finally been able to locate the farm in Sheridan County, Nebraska that my dad grew up on. Here is how I managed to find it. I had tw...

Day 5, Wednesday, Oct. 23 Before leaving O'Neill, we stopped off at the quilt store so I could drop off the family history of our p...

Day 4, Tuesday, Oct. 22 On Tuesday, we drove from Grand Island to Osceola, NE to visit my mom’s sister and her husband, Roselyn and Ala...

Here is my transcription of the census entry for my father's family from the 1940 US Census. This was his second appearance in the US Ce...