Just recovered, mostly, from a major boo-boo four days ago, while trying to revamp the site. Compounded by days of miscommunications and mistakes of my own and the hosting company’s, it resulted in four days of being partly or completely unavailable. Part of that time, there were ominous security messages…
[wowslider id=”4″] My target date to launch a big reorganization of the website is Dec. 10. The idea is to integrate the family tree and the blog, so that they look alike and share functionality. If the launch does not go smoothly, we may be down for short periods. As I said…
So, now that the blog has looked about the same for all 6 years of its existence, welcome to the first attempt at an update. Please bear with me if the attempts begin to mount up. You can really help if you leave a comment whenever you find something that doesn’t work…
Marte Østensdatter Forbrigd, as she is known in most genealogies, or Marte Bø, as I have called her, is at the center of a most bizarre and perplexing “murder mystery,” set in the Gudbrandsdal region of central Norway in the 1690s. The basic facts of the story are well-documented. She…
About halfway between Onawa and Oskaloosa (my primary interest in this post) lies the town of Carroll, IA. Carroll is the burial place of Thiel’s great-grandparents, Philip Beechel (1849-1922) and Mary Eleanor Mohler (Beechel). Philip was born in Alsace-Lorraine, a region of eastern France where most residents spoke (and still speak)…
A loop through western and central Iowa rounded out my 2014 mini-journey. The city of Onawa, south of Sioux City on the Missouri River, was the home of my great-grandparents Stephen B Myers (1848-1917) and Helen (Colby) Myers. Stephen Myers was a long-time official of Monona County, and may well have worked in…