Goodness! Being ill and work craziness and oncoming holidays all add together to make for one very absent blogger! But I’m back! And being that today is Saturday and I’m assisting the historical society with their accessioning again, I have … Continue reading
A few weeks ago, I attended the Idaho Genealogical Society’s annual meeting in a nearby town, and I carpooled with several ladies from the local genealogical society, which I had heard of, but not managed to connect with yet. Their … Continue reading
I finally was able to get back to volunteering at the Nez Perce County Historical Society today after several weeks away due to vacations, family problems and simple scheduling problems. I spent two hours down in the basement again, but … Continue reading
Usually my Society Saturday posts are all about the Nez Perce County Historical Society and museum, but today is a special day and a special trip for me I thought deserved mentioning. I haven’t joined any local genealogical societies yet, … Continue reading
Two Fridays past (so not yesterday, but Friday last week) I went in to talk to the two ladies in charge of the museum run by the local historical society I’d joined to tell them I wanted to get my … Continue reading
Last Saturday I asked for some advice from folks about how I should pursue this self-publishing thing, but I didn’t get many answers, so I’m still waffling. I did get a response from the editor of my society’s … Continue reading
If you’re new to my Society Saturday series, I invite you to take a look at the other posts I’ve made concerning my work for the Nez Perce County Historical Society, which involves brushing up on my knowledge of Idaho … Continue reading
Continuing from last Saturday‘s post, we find Phineas Howard Howe right where we left him before, a year into his self-made exile from Maine and still in Calaveras County, California. In a letter dated … Continue reading
In my last Society Saturday post featuring the work I’m doing for the local historical society on the family of Phineas H. Howe, I left off with the question of what could possess Phineas, a widower with two sons, aged … Continue reading
It’s been a week since I began piecing together the lives of the Howe family from the letters loaned to me by the local historical society, and what a week it’s been! I started off by poking around online, mostly … Continue reading