Sorry this is a little late getting put up, everyone--I had some image problems! I had the hardest time trying to decide what to write about, as a newbie, I don't have a lot of completed stories I can tell yet, I just have lots of tidbits of things. I picture here, a document there. I'm feeling overwhelmed by some stuff I recently collected that should be helping my research along, but instead I'm just kind of stuck...
Apart from one ancestor whose parents traveled the Oregon Trail and settled in Portland for a time, most of my family roots are in the midwest. When you live in the pacific northwest, as I do, that restricts your family research to what you can find online or in family history centers (which I still haven't been brave enough to visit yet).
This summer Mr. larmos, the 3 year old kid and 13 year old dog rented a minivan and drove from the PNW to central Illinois and Tennessee to spend a month visiting our families. The highlights of the drive included a stop in Yellowstone and a very long detour to get across the Missouri (flooding).
While I was visiting I got to scan a mountain of photos, papers, clippings, from both families, visit my dad's hometown, walk a family cemetery, visit the Abe Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library, etc. After the curls I'll share a few of my favorite discoveries with you and talk about how I managed to scan and organize the stuff I found.
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