The Buhr Mystery
The Buhrs loom large in my imagination. When you know absolutely nothing about a branch in your family tree, there’s no detail for your imagination […]
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Looking For My Grandmother in “Adventures of a Mennonite”
What happens when you’re desperate for stories but running out of sources? Well, if you’re a Mennonite, you can search for books written by folks […]
Exploring the Hiebert Cemetery… WITH a Hiebert!
I might blather on and on about visiting cemeteries here on my blog, but in real life, I don’t talk to people about it very […]
Katharina Barkman Koop: Nameless in Blumenort Cemetery #2
We first visited this cemetery in 2012. We were on our way back from Harvest Sun Festival in Kelwood. There was just something about having […]
He Didn’t Even Want To Be In This Conference…
Continued from Friday’s post. What I read here in this chapter corresponded to what I had read in the family history book. The Depression of […]