Nolesrock's Blog

...the world lost a great woman, my maternal grandmother, Kathryn "Kate" Dunning/Larson/Wright... One of my most favorite blog pos...

You can read part of the story in the news article, below, published on page 4 of the 1 Sep 1911 Evansville Journal newspaper. It tells of t...

 FRANCISCO MAN GOES MISSING FOR 20 YEARS ------------- Just walks away from shop, farm and family - DISAPPEARS! ------------- DISCOVERED DEA...

This morning, I came to the Thurston branch of my family tree, which shoots off from the Greeks and McCormicks of Gibson County, Indiana. Fo...

The Great Flood of 1937 hit the Ohio River Valley hard in mid-late January after 12 days of rain caused every tributary to over top their ba...

Today's pioneer history lesson takes us back to 1799 and Gibson County's oldest known settler, Keen Field. I was transported back in...

I don't have a photo of her, but then again, she died in 1877, so the headstone will have to do. Mary Mills-White is my 5th great ...

The excerpt above is from The History of Knox and Daviess counties, Indiana (The Goodspeed Publishing Co, 1886) . I found it while researchi...

Genealogic research performed by uncles on both sides of my family has piqued my interest in our families’ history. They’ve dug diligently t...