Category Archives: Feature Story
Feature Story – The Thrift Store Bible Adventure
1792 family bible discovered in thrift store returns to homeland museum thanks to genealogy research. Continue reading
A Look at the Family Research of Rick Norwood
A Feature Story We all come to genealogy from different paths and starting places, whether to create a family tree, or perhaps from a story passed down of days gone by. Richard (Rick) Norwood was introduced to family history in … Continue reading
A Box of Ashes Becomes a Cold Case
While the death of a son brings heartbreak to a mother, the theft of his ashes makes for a heart twice-broken. Thankfully, this story doesn’t end there, but it took years before its conclusion came to light. “My husband Harry … Continue reading
Feature Story – A Census Enumerator
The U.S. Constitution mandates a census of the population every 10 years (Title 13 of the U.S. Code). As such, the goal of the 2020 Census was to count everyone who lived in the U.S. on April 1, 2020. Households were … Continue reading
Feature Story: A 24-Year Search For Birth Parents
Donald T. (09 Apr 1911) was placed in Portland’s Waverly Baby Home (later known as the Waverly Children’s Home), and legally adopted in 1914. Although he acknowledged growing up adopted into a wonderful family, the question of who his birth parents were … Continue reading
Feature Story – A 52-Year Search
As all of us have come to know, genealogy is about research, and lots of it. There’s also persistence, the passion for making a connection, and then more research. Throughout that process, a name can often be the brick wall … Continue reading
Feature Story – Ramona Spencer
Anyone would be hard-pressed to locate the community of Webfoot on an Oregon map. Yet there it is – located in the Willamette Valley, in Yamhill County, 3 miles from Dayton, and 21 miles from Salem. New SGS member Ramona … Continue reading