DeValley ·
Welcome to Day 1 of Sifting Through the Soil. I’m starting with a story about how technology can actually get our history wrong if we aren’t careful. Outsmarting the Algorithm While looking at an old census record for Bion Devalley, my genealogy software made a snap judgment. It saw an older woman named Margrett Boyer/Bayer (spelled with two ‘t’s!) livingRead the Post
A Daily Journey Into Our Roots I’ve decided to start this Substack as a way to share the incredible (and sometimes messy) history of our family. For the past several months, I’ve been deep in the trenches of census records, old land deeds, and migration maps. I’ve found stories of pioneers, mysterious name changes, andRead the Post
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