My grandma kept everything. So when I went on the hunt for pictures, records, documents, etc. in her house, I had to wade through high school exam booklets and lesson plans from her teaching days, every newspaper that mentioned friends or family, boxes of unsold Farmer’s Union cookbooks and other random things, all coated with …
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How it began
My first experience with genealogy was a project in grade 8 called “All About Me”. Along with the life story of a 13 year old, this included making a family tree. At the time, we lived in the same yard as my mom’s parents on the farm she and my grandma grew up on. Grandma …
Lori's family history 