Genealogy is an Obsession

This is a story that I have put off writing for 39 years. Not because it is less important than the rest, but because it is a story that has...

 Hope and Swede with their 4 sons, Dude, Bill, Jim and Jeff, 1960 Hope Enger Reyman, July 18, 1926-October 28, 2013 After spendin...

Note from author:   This is a rewrite of a story I wrote in 1977 and I just found it again in a box of paper I was sorting through. DES ...

Mother's Day has been a bitter-sweet occasion to me since 1976.  That year in February I lost my dear mother, Effie Jeannetta Mestad ...

      One of the very favorite and influential people in my entire life was my Aunt Tootsie, officially known as Myrtle Vivian Enger, born ...

Note: This blog will be mostly in pictures--I believe one picture is worth a thousand words.   This blog is the final installmen...