In a combination of continued historical mindedness and absolute mind-crushing boredom, I started fiddling around with my Family Tree program this evening. It’s a copy of the family history as assembled by the McMillan family, so it’s lopsided and has gaping holes which I felt like trying to plug. Since all that is available to me is the internet at the moment, I did some searching around.
Lo and behold, a copy of the biography on my great grandfather, Haver Bruner, was recently sold on Ebay-Canada for $20. Even being an antique buff, I somehow never expected to see a copy of that book for sale. (I have one, so it’s not like I’m shopping for it. I just didn’t expect to see it.)
Anyway, not much happened as far as online research goes. The holes in the Family Tree are currently so large that I need access to my grandmother’s historical records so that I can flesh out the information before I try tracking anything down. Typing in the names of 80 year old plains-state residents doesn’t get you very far on the internet.
Who knew?
Anyway, here’s the cover of the book via a shamelessly stolen auction photo.
He died when I was 53 days old. No wonder he feels like such a completely distant stranger, though he was actually my mother’s grandpa.
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