I love the Little House on the Prairie books, especially when the Ingalls family moves to the Dakota Territories so that Pa can work for the railroad.
Times were so difficult back then that it wasn't unusual for families to be divided. The mother and children might live on a homestead claim while the father worked in town to make the money they would need to survive.
It never fails to amaze me the stories behind how a family ended up moving from Delaware to Wyoming.
So if you are finding it hard to keep up with a distant relatives movements try tracking their known relatives and neighbors. Many times people moved from one job to another or to newly opened frontiers as groups!
Times were so difficult back then that it wasn't unusual for families to be divided. The mother and children might live on a homestead claim while the father worked in town to make the money they would need to survive.
It never fails to amaze me the stories behind how a family ended up moving from Delaware to Wyoming.
So if you are finding it hard to keep up with a distant relatives movements try tracking their known relatives and neighbors. Many times people moved from one job to another or to newly opened frontiers as groups!
