For those who are doing family research:
Nevada State Historic Preservation Office
http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/shpo/NVCensus/FindPeople/Interface.asp
North Dakota State University genealogy databases
http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/ndirs/bio&genealogy/index.html
California Bound, 1848-1873, Ship Passenger Lists
http://www.pt5dome.com/PassHome.html
I was first introduced to the stories of Jessie Ruth Guffy when her
daughter-in-law posted one on a Rootsweb list. I wrote to Lois, asking
permission to post it to another list. "Yes," came the answer, "would
you like to see any of the others?"
One after another, they came, each more engaging than the one before,
on every subject from camp meetings to home remedies (see list below).
I was thrilled when Lois said I could share them by placing them online
because, though Jessie Guffy grew up in Oklaho
Hi everyone, the coordinator of this project asked me to share this with you.
Nancy, List Admin.
Voices from the past echo eerily through the deserted streets of towns long gone... Tumbleweeds blow across dusty roads, tumbling along to their eternal resting places in abandoned mining shafts where pick axes still stand embedded in the ground.. Buildings slowly decay and collapse as year after year they stand in silence.. History waits to be brought to life once again. Towns long to tell their
The Women of the West
They left the vine-wreathed cottage and the mansion on the hill,
The houses in the busy streets, where life is never still,
The pleasures of the city, and the friends they cherished best:
For love, they faced the wilderness -- the Women of the West.
The roar, and rush, and fever of the city soon died away,
And the old-time joys and faces -- they were gone for many a day;
In their place the lurching coach-wheel or the creaking bullock chains,
O'er the everlasting sameness of th
Diary of James WOODWORTH - Across the Plains to California in 1853
http://members.aol.com/netpotato/JamesWDiary.pdf
This is a PDF document, you'll need the Adobe reader, which can be
downloaded free at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html .
Nancy
www.geocities.com/twincousin2334
www.thepastwhispers.com