bindian
Super Member
Buckeyefarmer,
Ask every kind of question you can think of of your family's history and document it all. Mom and Dad died in 2008 and 2009 and every other day I have questions I want to ask and can't.
hugs, Brandi
Life on the farm
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Ask every kind of question you can think of of your family's history and document it all. Mom and Dad died in 2008 and 2009 and every other day I have questions I want to ask and can't.
hugs, Brandi
workinonit
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+1 Brandi. I sure miss being able to ask those questions as well as getting sage advice. Funny how uninformed we thought they were when we were teenagers and how smart we think they are now. Mine both passed away last year within 6 months of each other.
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buckeyefarmer
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I’ve been trying to get as much genealogy info as I can from my dad. He told me some more last visit I didn’t know.
Already found some old pictures from the 30s that my mom would have known about but dad doesn’t know.
I researched all the original landowners of our farm since the US govt sold it as the NW territory in the early 1800s. Dads farm was not always in our family, My cousin still owns my grandfathers farm that was bought from the govt.
bindian
Super Member
Mom and Dad past away a hair over 6 months. They were together 49 years.
hugs, Brandi
bindian
Super Member
My Grandpa won his Texas Panhandle 580 acre farm in a poker game. My cousin bought all the farm from all my aunts and uncles. Since he was raised a mile from the farm, he stayed a lot with Grandpa after Grandma died.
hugs, Brandi
bindian
Super Member
Doofy,
At least you are in my 2nd favorite state. When TDY back in 1983-1984, in Fairbanks and Anchorage working on helicopters.......I told my boss if I had came to Alaska before getting married...................I would have moved to Alaska.
I was working for Air Logisitics then. They had bases all over Alaska back then. I was in Fairbanks in December and Anchorage and Nome in August.
hugs, Brandi
Alaska was the best move we ever made but all good things must come to an end. This is not the same great place. Crime and drug use is high and a lot of the independent spirit and pride is gone. If their hand isn't out for the welfare then it's probably trying to get in your pocket. Seriously considering moving back to Texas and have begun looking at houses and even subscribing to our old newspaper. Not much has really changed there in last 3 decades.
bindian
Super Member
Just out of staters moving in and giving folks like robert francis o'rouke more to crow about.
hugs, Brandi
Hopefully, since I am a Native-born Texan, I will fit right back in. The Wife is ornery enough to fit in too. The independent and conservative values of Texas and Alaska are not that much different.
