Stories and tidbits about individuals and families.     Back to family home page.

Dr. John M. Michael, physician and surgeon.

Zuretta Rockhold, teacher, taught in dugout sod schoolhouse, then in one room school.

Ella M. Rockhold, teacher for 30 plus years.

Teachers Exam, Kansas 1925.  Could you pass it?   Note: 4 pages, large file size, somewhat reduced for the web.

   If you can't read it, it can be emailed to you.  I have 300 dpi images of the four pages.

Stories of the times.

Genealogical links found useful:

Resources:

    Maps and some links found useful in our genealogy search.

        http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdsomers/maps.htm - many exquisitely detailed with explanations

    State and county pages:

        KS

        NE

        IA

        IL

             http://www.illinoisancestors.org/fulton/

        OH

            http://www.usgennet.org/usa/oh/county/highland/toc.html

        IN

        PA

        MD

Commercial Web Sites

    http://www.all-genealogysites.com/  All Genealogy Sites Directory, some useful information, some links are free, others not.

Sites to search:

      http://www.theshipslist.com/  One of many sites containing ship passenger lists.

Transcription Projects:

    http://www.usgenweb.org/ - see their census project, and they have other transcriptions too.

Some have free services, some are not.  We do not endorse any of the organizations.  Off site links are not a part of www.scandiapine.org and is not responsible for their content.

The organizations or individual pages have been useful, and often the members were very helpful in their communication.