By Kathy Wait Myers, on November 10th, 2009
I have this overwhelming fascination with finding out what my nationality really is (besides American). There’s a part of me that feels like I’m missing out on something. It’s the part that surfaces when I go to my friend George Kazas’s Greek restaurant The Parthenon, when I watch French Kiss, and when I listen to the stories [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on November 9th, 2009
I found a new website yesterday called Obits of Nebraska that specializes in pre-1930s obituaries for people who died in Nebraska. Having deep Nebraska roots, I thought I would give it a shot and see if they have any from Seward County. Since it’s such a rural county, there usually aren’t any clippings from their newspapers, [...]
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 October 11th, 2009
I thought I’d let you all know about a genealogy group that I started.
http://waitheritage.ning.com/
Over the last few months that I’ve been researching my WAIT roots, I’ve “met” probably a dozen people online who have also researched my line. Through a series of emails and messages on Ancestry.com, I’ve learned a lot about where I come [...]
By Kathy Wait Myers, on September 28th, 2009
I had a bit of a panic attack on Friday! I decided to clean up the categories that I use in my blog entries… delete any subcategories… use just surnames instead of full names… centuries instead of decades… you can see my handiwork by clicking the dropdown arrow for “Categories” over there on the right [...]
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