Looking For My Grandmother in “Adventures of a Mennonite”
What happens when you’re desperate for stories but running out of sources? Well, if you’re a Mennonite, you can search for books written by folks […]
Erin’s Blog
Exploring the Hiebert Cemetery… WITH a Hiebert!
I might blather on and on about visiting cemeteries here on my blog, but in real life, I don’t talk to people about it very […]
A Never-Before-Seen Pic From My Grandparents’ Wedding Day!
When I was a girl, I spent many many hours with my paternal grandmother on our family’s Kleefeld dairy farm. Milking cows. Pitching straw bales. […]
Turn, Turn, Turn
I often feel like I’ve become interested in history — like, my own history, my family history — much too late in life. This is […]
Jacob Barkman: Born in Prussia, Buried in Manitoba
This past Saturday, Andrew and I got it into our heads to find his twice-over great-great-great-great-grandfather’s grave. We used the Find A Grave website to […]