A common source of information for family research is newspapers. There are any number of things that can be published in the paper that might provide information about a person. Obituaries, wedding and anniversary announcements are the most common items found. The social pages often had items on travels, jobs, colleges, and reunions. Even the local police reports may have interesting tidbits!
Month: December 2021
Every season has something to offer when you are out in the woods. We haven’t done a ton of winter camping, but we enjoy getting out whenever we can.
Michelle and I would like to wish all of our readers a Happy Holidays and a Joyous New Year!
When you are out backpacking, waking up in the morning and seeing the sunrise is a beautiful thing. Some mornings are foggy and provide a soft view of new beginnings.
Sometimes you are looking out over a lake.
Frances Veronica Link was born December 18, 1926 to William John and Elizabeth Wellman Link in West Point, Iowa. She lived there until she graduated high school.
The holiday season seems like an appropriate time to talk about gifts. It is nice to be given a gift, and even better to give gifts. One of our traditions is to wrap our gifts in interesting packages – to disguise what it really is. This post isn’t about gifts to others, but gifts to my future self.
When you are researching your family history, learning where they lived helps you find out more information about them. It’s even better when you can see who their neighbors were and where that store they owned sat.
We can see on this map that the hotel is in section two, lot ten. The post office is across the square in section five, lot eighteen.
A good prop can make an RPG session really memorable. A map written on actual parchment, for example, grabs the imagination a little harder than the same drawing on a page ripped from a spiral notebook. Good props help the players feel immersed in the game, and give the setting verisimilitude.
Some purchased adventures include such handouts. But if you’re writing your own adventures, you have to make your own props too.
And if you play online, the props have to be digital.
Henry Schippert and Ada Link were married on November 29, 1922 in Edina, Missouri.
