Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House on the Prairie series is an amalgamation of memory, fact, and fiction. As recorded in Little House on the Prairie, for the child Laura traveling to Kansas by covered wagon and settling on the open prairie was a big adventure. The truth is, it is not likely an experience she remembered. Beginning with Little House in the Big Woods, Wilder may not have anticipated writing any more books. Thus, when she decided to write about her famil

My research on Gus Youngberg (see January 24, 2015 post) went a little deeper this past week when I discovered that golden cords were hung for both his brother, Alfred, and sister, Ruth. According to his wife Norma, these three siblings left home at an early age and supported each other through their teen years and into college. They all attended Union College at the same time, graduating in 1915. As I searched Ancestry.com looking for documents to support Norma's version of