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Riddle of the Month

June 27, 2007 at 7:23 pm » Comments (0)

The Human Resources Department of the City of Medford publishes a monthly newsletter for City employees, and I occasionally write articles or items of historical interest to the City or Jackson County, Oregon. For example, here is a “riddle of the month” published in the June issue of the newsletter Corridors:
What name definitively does not [...]



Family Tree Data Base Updated

June 11, 2007 at 5:26 am » Comments (0)

This weekend the family tree data based reached another milestone, as it now includes more than 11,000 individuals in more than 4,000 families. Among the significant additions was new information on the descendants of Peter Bradt, b. in 1820.
Feel free to browse at http://www.greencity.org/TNG. You don’t have to register to use the site, but if [...]



Glenn Edward Wells (1925-2007)

June 11, 2007 at 5:22 am » Comments (0)

My uncle, Glenn Edward Wells, a fourth great-grandchild of Samuel and Sobriety BUNKER Williams, died June 5, 2007 in Bakersfield, Kern Co., California. He was the only son of Frank and Verna WINSLOW Wells, born March 5, 1925 in Traver, Tulare Co., California.
His family moved to Bakersfield when he was just a toddler. He attended [...]