What a lot of people don’t realize, is that the story of the Homestead Act of 1862 is closely connected to the story of women’s suffrage.
It all seems very familiar – people saying that it’s “a hoax,” science scrambling to find an answer.
Vintage Aerial, an exhibitor at RootsTech 2020, has fourteen million aerial photographs of rural America spanning the 1960s to early 2000s.
The Genealogy Section of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library offers several online databases used by genealogists.
The interments for Grove Hill Cemetery in Dallas are available on the Family Search website under the title Burial index file, death, and interment records, 1911 – 1985.
I am proud to say I am bi-lingual. I speak two languages, Texan and English. As English is my second language, sometimes I struggle but I do the best that I can.
When my youngest son Nathan attended New Tech High at Coppell, he became interested in the Civil War.
There are several sources you can go to find information on how your ancestors lived. But how do you find them? Google Scholar.
Muhammad Ali once said, “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
One way to share your findings with friends and family is through writing. Writing has several advantages over telling our stories.
