Category Archives: Genealogy

This is a story of four young people and how the paths of their lives crossed and re-crossed over the years. When an unpopular emperor named Peter was overthrown in a palace coup in 1762, the conspirators propped up his … Continue reading →

Back in the Olden Days people didn’t move around much, and the place where you lived was as much a part of your identity as your name. In the old birth, marriage, and death records I have been studying from … Continue reading →

In Finding the Family Farm, I talked about my surprising discovery that my great-grandfather George Lindley Coulson, the Yorkshire coal miner, had a brief stint as a homesteader in the Black Hills of Wyoming in the opening years of the … Continue reading →

There’s my great-grandmother Julia Bublick, presiding over the wedding of her daughter, my grandmother, Mayre Coulson. You can tell by this photo who’s in charge here, can’t you? Julia’s husband Joe stands to her left. I didn’t know Joe and … Continue reading →

My great-grandfather George Lindley Coulson grew up working in the coal mines of west Yorkshire. When he arrived in North America with his wife and family around 1890, he found employment in the coal mines of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. That … Continue reading →

In celebration of Mother’s Day, I wanted sum up what I know about each of my great-grandmothers, none of whom I think I ever met in the flesh, although I have gotten to know them a little bit through my … Continue reading →

Aunty Mary, who died over 30 years ago, is the primary source for much of my earliest Coulson family history. She was born in Wyoming but she must have spent a lot of time listening to her folks, because she … Continue reading →

When I was driving through Havre, Montana a while back I decided to stop at the public library to see if they had any books on local history. I wanted to investigate a story I had heard that my grandfather’s … Continue reading →