Why you might want to come along …
Do you like regional history and, more specifically, family history? I have stories.
I’m Neil Sagebiel, an author and writer. I’m also the descendant of flood survivors, which led me to create my first Substack, The 1937 Flood Journal.
And …
I’m the son of a teacher and a lover of history and genealogy — my mom, Marcia Moore Sagebiel. In large part, my mom’s passion is the impetus for this, my second Substack:
FRIED BOLOGNA: Family Stories from the American Midwest and Upland South
So excited to read Neil Sagebiel’s new family history newsletter, Fried Bologna!
I have family stories to share, stories in faded manila folders that Mom quietly handed to me three decades ago.
I have stacks of family photos on the back of which she carefully wrote details about people named Moore, Pryor, Tolliver, Browne and Hankins.
I have family trees she made on her primitive PC, and the reports and short biographies she wrote about her parents, grandparents and other close and distant relatives.
In FRIED BOLOGNA, I will share stories about my ancestors who lived, worked and traveled in Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri and farther-flung places because at least some of them had wanderlust.
You will meet folks such as my great uncle, Virgil Bravard Browne, in his first-person account of his rollicking boyhood in Noble, Illinois, circa 1900.
I also plan to tell stories about family members who worked for railroads, failed at farming, built homes and schools, survived (or didn’t survive) the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, and more.
Please come along. It will be something.
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