W. G. Yates – CCC Honorable Discharge Alaska

Recently, when going through some more of our Yates family documents, I found one that I hadn’t remembered seeing before. Or, at least I didn’t remember scanning it and putting it in the Yates documents folder until now.  My dad passed away in June of 1996 and in the four years previous, he had written [...]

A Wish List for Genealogists

A Wish List for Genealogists As a genealogist, what kind of things would you most like to have? Do you know someone who is just beginning to research their family tree and you’d like to give them a gift? Here are some ideas: When I began doing genealogy, one of the first books I bought [...]

Our Educated Ancestors

My ancestor’s educational records ran the gamut from none to the unknown.  Most of my father’s generation had high school educations, but many of them weren’t able to go onto college because they lacked the money and in their circles there were no family members to foot the bill for anything like it.  The alternative [...]

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