My Trails into the Past

In one week, I will start a trip to Kentucky to attend the National Genealogical Society’s Family History Conference in Louisville. We are leaving a week early by train, traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago and then from Chicago to Indianapolis, where we will rent a car for the next two weeks. My husband’s Davey, Wollenweber, and Voehringer families lived in Indianapolis and Jeffersonville, and in Louisville, Kentucky. My Lancasters were from Shelby County, Kentucky, and my Pollys from Lewis County. I have lots of planning to do to make the best of my research time. Indianapolis My first stop is Indianapolis. After touring the Capitol building (8 to 5), I will check out the Indiana Archives and the Indiana State Library. In checking the archives’ website ( arc@iara.in.gov ), they are open from 9 to 4. I see there are license records for Edward N. Flynn and Rose C McFall, who were physicians in Indiana. The military record for Joseph H. McFall is also there. The final record I wa...

I had been planning a research trip to Turlock, California with a friend since the pandemic started. We both have family who lived in the area, though my husband’s family lived here early in the 20 th century and hers lived there in the mid-to-late part of the century. We used Trello to make our plans. It’s a great place to put details of each research facility and what specific things we hope to see there. We had three main places for research: the archives at the California State University Stanislaus (CSUS) library, the Turlock Historical Society, and the Turlock Public Library. We also planned trips to the cemetery and funeral home. We spent two nights and three days in Turlock. CSUS The first stop was the library at CSUS. The archivist had all the items we requested laid out on the tables.  It was very helpful to contact her ahead of time. One of the items I wanted to see was a master’s dissertation but it was not available for me because the microfilm machine at the lib...