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Oregon Trail History | Family Genealogy & History
About
Mark Goddard
No doubt like many people, I wondered at times about my family and where we had all come from. Over forty years ago I found myself in the small eastern Oregon town of Canyon City, perusing their modest historical museum. Besides, my interest in family history was an unfolding fascination with Oregon history, and I was soon to learn they were inexplicably intertwined. On that day, I looked up at the portraits of a man and a woman, taken in the late 1800’s, and looking down at the placard beneath them, saw the name Fisk, the same maiden name of my paternal grandmother. I was staring back five generations to my grandparents, who traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852. Since that time, I have continued studying the history of Oregon through the lineages of 7000+ people I have researched, unraveling stories in history, and stories of my family back to the 1500’s. This website brings those stories out of dusty boxes where they can be shared, and where I might help others discover the stories within their own families.
Blogs
Treasured Voices – The Forgotten Oral Histories of Family Pioneers
A friend recently wrote, "I met a Murray several times in older reunions in John Day. She was a little…The Ghost Town That’s Really a Ghost
A half hour NE of Potlatch, Idaho is a mountainous area, its prominent feature being Gold Hill, elev. 4646 ft.…Blending Families at the End of the Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail - 1845 Christopher Peter Zumwalt was born 1827 in Cote Sans Dessein Township, Callaway, Missouri, a difficult birth…Mystery of the Sublette Millions
Many of us who dabble in the history of the Pacific Northwest and the Oregon Trail are familiar with some…From a Murder Mystery in Leeds to Iconic Photos of Montana
James Fisk standing on right with wife Lydia and daughter Dell, who traveled the Trail at age two in 1866.…The Darker Corners of Family History
As much as we enjoy sharing the stories and history of our families, we tend to skirt cautiously past the…
Stories
The Girl in the Middle
As I wrote in "Images of Family Research," I’ve not encountered many people who aren’t intrigued, and often captivated, by…After the Wagon Wheels, Vol. 2
Here is a teaser on my upcoming Audible book based on After the Wagon Wheels, Vo. 2, collected stories from…A Casual Jaunt to the Store
In May of 1877 Cyrus Locey was in Baker City, Oregon and wrote in his journal on the 29th, "...started…“Crossing the Plains” by Walter G. Beith
In "Two Families, One Common Ancestor, Two Hundred Miles Apart" I introduced a quote by a little girl named Arlene,…Wagontires & Strawberries – Place Names and Family
As Ralph Fisk relates in Grandfather's Story, "On April 10, 1864, a beautiful sunshine morning, he [Nathan Fisk] set out…The Stories of W. Ralph Fisk cont.
W. Ralph Fisk April 14, 1922 Editor of the Eagle, While I was in Canyon City visiting a few…
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