By Kathy Wait Myers, on November 7th, 2009
Yesterday, I went to Nine Mile Prairie for my first Artist’s Date (more on that later). Nine Mile Prairie is basically a piece of land (230 acres) that has never been plowed. It’s covered with natural prairie grasses and native trees and is one of the largest of its kind in the Midwest. It strikes me [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on November 4th, 2009
Photo: F. S. Wood, date unknown. Digital image. Privately held by Kathy Wait Myers, (ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE), Nebraska, 2009. All rights reserved.
What do [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on October 15th, 2009
I dreamed about genealogy all night last night! Who belongs to who, who lived where, and what happened to William Mathews from yesterday’s post. So when I woke up this morning, I hopped right on the computer and started searching for people in that family cluster. One thing led to another and soon I was [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on October 14th, 2009
I finally found James G and Susannah (Susan) WAITS and family in the 1870 Census! They’re in Ohio for the 1860 census and in Nebraska by 1880. So I decided to look at every census form of anyone with a name anything like WAITS. There they were in Illinois, of all places! Pittsfield in Pike [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on October 14th, 2009

This tintype image comes from my cousin Robin Roy in Washington State. We believe this is her great grandfather (and my 2nd great grandfather), William Henry WAITS (1845-1927). We can’t seem to come to a conclusion about who the lovely lady is standing beside him.
William married [...]
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