Oklahoma

December 31, 2014 Dana 0 Comments 0 min read

You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out! (A Letter to Santa Claus)

My husband’s favorite Christmas movie is A Christmas Story in which Ralphie wants a BB gun but the adults all

November 1, 2014 Dana 4 Comments 3 min read

I’ve written posts about Ephraim Bennett (my great, great grandmother’s brother) killing his abusive brother-in-law, Nathan Buchanan. A few days

October 14, 2014 Dana 0 Comments 2 min read

My daughter is taking a year-long geography course this year. Last week she was learning about the “pushes” and “pulls”

September 26, 2014 Dana 1 Comment 0 min read

I found the following newspaper advertisement twenty-two times in the Arkansas City Daily Traveler. I guess Eckert (Eckard) Peters (1845-

September 15, 2014 Dana 0 Comments 2 min read

I have been having a lot of success lately with newspapers.com, my favorite site for newspaper research. Their search engine

July 6, 2014 Dana 5 Comments 3 min read

I’ve done a few of Randy Seaver’s “Saturday Night Genealogy Fun” challenges over at Genea-Musings. This week’s challenge is about