All My Ancestors

Today is the 100th anniversary of Oklahoma’s statehood. She entered the Union 16 November 1907.
That’s a pretty young state. At work, where we do lots of research for folks with ancestors in Oklahoma or Indian Territory, we spend a lot of time explaining that there just aren’t birth or death records for their [...]

. . .about the couple who went to a vaudeville show, got married on-stage on a whim and $25? I heard the story on Morning Edition this morning. Eighty years later, they’re still married and using the china they bought with the money.

Today at work I was looking for an online listing of a tombstone for a family I assumed was of German from Russia descendancy. I was looking at the usual sites–Findagrave and Internment.net and the web page for the county on Oklahoma’s GenWeb page.
It reminded me of a conversation I had with my great [...]