The Heritage Huntress

One of my favorite finds during my most recent access to Newspapers.com is also one of the most enigmatic. I am taking liberties in applyin...

This prompt is a week late, and there is a substantial gap since the last post. Although this quarantine theoretically provides more tim...

Grandpa Red, Vinis Brosius, spent a lot of time in the water. My dad mentioned to me the other evening that he remembers Lowell (Red's ...

This prompt has proven the most difficult for me thus far this year, although "So Far Away" should seem an easy prompt for an Amer...

Lowell Brosius, my Grandpa Red's brother, was born in Sedan, Kansas 21 Mar 1913. When his father died in 1920, he moved with his mother ...

Last year I began the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge a little late in the year and tried to catch up. After a few weeks I was only fall...

Now, therefore, I, John M. Haines, governor of the state of Idaho, do hereby join with the president of the United States in designating a...

The prompt for Week 4 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge this year was "I'd Like to Meet."  Like any genealogist, th...

The prompt for Week 3 of the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge this year was "Unusual Name."   The six eldest Brosius kids: ...

  Lee Brosius, with his wife Hazel, obviously some time after the Great War. Since I have been featuring the World War I veterans of th...

The only photograph I have ever seen of Harry Brosius; he is the elder boy. The baby is his oldest half-brother Marshall. This week...

Mister Doughboy, Mister Doughboy, Gee, what a guy! You sure look pie to me. –Jack Davey This may seem like a tangent befo...