Before America’s social services systems were in place to serve as a safety net for the most unfortunate in society, there were...

Clella Cook was born on August 10, 1913, in the home of her grandmother, Cora Cook, at 1020 Isaac Street in Lansing, Michigan. She was...

I never met my father-in-law, Carl Richard Miller, who passed away several years before I entered the picture. Perhaps anyone marrying...

Family secrets. Scandals and skeletons in closets. Outlaws and in-laws. When researching family history, you never know what you might...

Bernice Arlene Haakinson, the youngest child of Abel and Synneva Haakinson, was born on a farm near Radcliffe on May 10, 1918. Agnes...

It is baseball season again, and my wife is bracing herself for becoming a baseball widow again for the next seven months. Forgive me if...

They had us laugh. Sometimes they made us angry or even cry. They often provoked us to think, evaluate, and even change our attitudes,...

In an earlier article, I indicated that there were as many Norwegian in America as Norwegians. This was because of the massive...

Last month my sister gave me a 1935 diary she found that my father, Elsworth (Al) Huseby, had written. His first entry records his...