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How can we know where we're heading if we don't know where we came from? With today's online genealogy research programs and tools, it's much easier to trace your heritage. You can go back multiple generations to learn when ancestors were born, where they lived, and where they were when they came to the end of life.
Family research is like opening a box set inside another box inside another. Oftentimes, the more you dig the deeper you get into the who, what and where of your family. See the example (below) of what I discovered about my paternal grandfather.
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Elmer Marymee was born in 1892 in Nebraska. He was the son of a farmer and after his father died, Elmer took over the family farm near Bladen. He married Josephine Zlatkovsky in 1919. Their firstborn child, my dad David, was born in 1920.
When I came along in the late 1950s, my interaction with grandpa came during periodic trips back to Nebraska or times he and my grandmother visited us in California. I can't remember a single conversation I had with him. He was pretty dour. No notable accomplishments, other than keeping his wife and six kids clothed and fed during the Great Depression.
In 2022, I sorted through a box of photos and documents left by my father. One item caught my attention: AUCTION, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, ELMER MARYMEE & SON.
Apparently, grandpa had enough of drought and hardship and was selling off everything. Probably to pay off bank loans that consumed a lot of farmers back then.
There was no year listed on the auction flyer, so I researched it and came up with zero. But, I was really surprised to see grandpa and grandma mentioned in newspaper articles about a US House of Resentatives Select Committee hearing in Hastings, Nebr. It was held on Nov. 27 and the committee was investigating how growth in defense contracting jobs was drawing young people away from midwest farms.
Grandpa told it straight: Nebraska farmers were in the ninth-straight year of drought; Many small farmers, himself included, couldn't afford the cost of buying equipment for irrigation; and kids on the farm, his two oldest sons included, no longer saw a future in farming.
I was floored. This was a story my father never told me. And he was a U.S. history teacher. You never know what some research into your family's history can uncover, until you do it.
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