Echoes from Randolph
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Grave Stories, Part 1
This is the first post of a multi-part series. I’ve recently registered Randolph, Coos County, Oregon, as a one-place study (OPS). Now I’m in the process of learning how to conduct a OPS so that I can start adding content to its dedicated WikiTree webpage. Many one-place studies (OPS) begin defining a place and its…
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A Randolph-Centered Childhood
Almost every weekend during my childhood, my parents would pack me, my younger sister, and a pair of dachshunds into the back seat of the family car. After a thirty-minute drive we arrived in Randolph to visit both my dad’s parents and my mom’s parents. Sometimes we spent the entire weekend at one of their…
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Lost in Data
After publishing my first post, I started writing a multiple-part series I’d outlined about Randolph, Oregon. While waiting for Arnie Jensen’s (2017) book, No Place Like Home (an Inter-Library Loan request), I turned to online sources for local history. I found an overwhelming amount of information. The scholar in me took over, displacing the conversational…
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Remembering Randolph
I’ve dabbled with genealogy for several years and just couldn’t figure out how to write a family history that I wanted to share with others. This year I was inspired to begin writing family history narratives after watching Beth Stahr’s webinar explaining how she infuses social history into ancestor profiles. Then I found Lorelle VanFossen’s…