Favorite Find: Week 2 #52ancestors
I don't have a particular favorite find: a lot of things have delighted me when I found them and I will revisit them to enjoy them again. The particular find I'm going to talk about both answered and opened many questions about my family's connection to the Skagit Valley* where I live now in Washington state. My parents moved here from Olympia (where they both grew up) in the late 1940s, presumably so my father could work on the dams on the Skagit River, or in logging. This remains a relatively rural place with nothing that could be described as a city, and a lot of farms. A fair chunk of the county is in the North Cascades National Park. I was born here in the mid 50s, but my parents packed us up and left in the mid 60s when the work ran out. But what brought the Skagit Valley to my parents' attention in the first place? I still don't really know precisely but looking at my father's brother's birth certificate gave me a clue. ...