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Our farmhouse in Kansas holds many of my family’s keepsakes, and every time we visit I refamiliarize myself with the ancestral annals held within in her walls. During our most…

Letters from Wright Higginbottom to Sister Eliza

As the “family keeper,” I’m always finding a new treasure in my ancestral archives.

A love letter to Gertrude Truett Hogsett

Fletcher Bowron was the 2nd longest serving Mayor of Los Angeles — and a relentless proponent for the internment of Japanese Americans.

If your ancestors are European American and from the South, chances are they owned human beings.

In her first entry in her journal on Monday, January 1, 1877, Gertrude “Gertie” Peck writes: New Years day finds me at Mr. Cross’s enjoying fun of the best kind...

Ona Stella was a prolific painter. Ona was born in Kansas in September, 1873 only months after the tumultuous journey her family made from Ohio to Kansas seeking a more…

By looking at the photos of her, you’d think she was a hard woman, an unhappy woman, a woman that controlled all that surrounded her.