Family History Nuggets

 Emery and Esther Ogden were my maternal grandparents. Two given names and a shared surname that all begin with a vowel. That seems like a g...

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...

One of the things that frustrates me the most in working with my ancestors is trying to determine the spelling of names of some of my German...