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Margaret Jarvis Overson's business card. The Overson home in St. Johns.  Here is a more recent picture of the home. Henry and Maggie ...

A picture taken by Charles DeFriez Jarvis of his wife and her sisters.  Courtesy of Randy Cameron. Yesterday I received an email from an O...

My husband has been very supportive of all my family history and Mormon history projects, so about a month ago, I decided to make a book for...

I just finished a very time-intensive project that I will mention in a post in a day or two. Between that and the Eminent Women project, pos...

After spending much longer than should be necessary searching for a list of the members of the Mormon Battalion , here is a link to the only...

Bessie put up a post yesterday on Ancestral Ties about the identity of the woman mentioned in the story of John Morgan's dream. Here i...

Commenter Grant mentioned at Keepapitchinin about the Bureau of Land Management website containing General Land Office Records. It has a go...

As I mentioned yesterday , I recently realized that I do not have much information on the Marsden family.  I was a little puzzled how to st...

  Mary Ann Hancock Marsden I ordered a copy of a history of James Marsden from the DUP. He was the son of Charles and Mary Ann Hancock Mars...

Salt Lake City I will tell you what I [want] for Xmas. I won't a doll with a pink dresse. And I won't a story book and a game, stok...