Category Archives: Feature Story
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
Jim Barrett, A Feature Story
A self professed ‘history nut’, stamp and coin collector, Jim Barrett has had a remarkable past. At first glance one might think him just an ordinary man but within a few minutes into our interview, I found him to be … Continue reading
A Veteran’s Day Tribute
Member Mike Allen shares a story on his father in-law, Gabriel Carino’s World War I experience. The story actually began for Mike with a German war rifle stored in a closet in the house where his wife Pat grew up. … Continue reading
Feature Story – Louise Carlson
In the 1980’s Louise Carlson and her husband lived in the Philippines. During trips to Boston to visit with her sister, they sought out auctions in the area, primarily looking for vintage linens. Feeling particularly lucky at one such auction, … Continue reading
Feature Story – Mary Colgan-Bennetts
Mary Colgan-Bennetts sums up her early years of interest in genealogy as ‘nonexistent’. She grew up with 9 siblings, including a sister who had done extensive family research without a computer. Yet Mary never bothered to look at her sister’s … Continue reading