Tools & Burial Sites: Learning More About Peter Baerg
I purport to be interested in local history, so it’s astounding and ridiculous that I’ve never read all the books that contain Peter Baerg’s translated […]
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Chasing the “Somewhere”
Last night, I spoke about Mennotoba in front of an audience. I was terrified. I’m an awkward speaker. I forget what I want to say, all […]
Frozen in Time: Fort Daer at West Lynne
Hi! Allow me to take you back in time… to a summer filled with carefree road trips, long sunny days, and trees and fields bursting […]
Jakob’s Final Resting Place (After Being Booted Out of Osterwick)
When I first read Peter Brown’s book The Brauns of Osterwick, I never expected to actually see the gravesite of my great-great-great-grandfather Jakob Braun. It […]
Reading the Lehn Diary (Begun in 1725!)
As I went as far back in my genealogy as possible with the Grandma Online program, and was intrigued to discover that one of my […]