Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
The 1920s Changed Our Daily Lives & Not How You Might Think . . .
In the 1920's life changed drastically for the average American and for people all over the world. Airplanes began to be a mode of transportation and communication. Automobiles, rather than horses, ...
researching anything I can find on the name Dusek and Howard. I will share information with those who are interested. After 1870, both families resided in California, mostly Humboldt-Mendocino-Lake-and Sonoma Counties.
My Brisbin, Wonch, Tompkins, Thompson, Wimer, Tower(s), Winters, Weatherall, Witherall came from the Collbran, Colorado area. Most all of them were cattle ranchers in the area during the 1800s. My gggrandfather James Brisbin wrote a book about cattle ranching there which caused a large migration to that area. Benjamin Kite Witherill discovered the Mesa Verde area.