I plan to leave on May 11th, with the intent of arriving at the home of Bob Schultz before nightfall. I’ll spend the night and part of the next day with Bob and Meme before heading to Billings for a visit with George St. George.
Time is drawing neigh
It’s well into April and the site needs considerable work, for which I will need help, but still hope to get things working before I leave. Current plans are to leave sometime during the second full week of May (i.e., after the tomatoes are planted). Will keep you informed.
OMISCOFFQ
Welcome. This is where I will provide a blow by blow account of my OMISCOFFQ: Old Man in a Sports Car on a Friends and Family Quest trip across the country visiting friends and doing some genealogy research so I can complete the last two of my genealogy books.
Here is the plan: Sometime in May, after the tomatoes are in the ground, I leave the Tri-Cities for the East Coast. From here to Montana to visit friends, Bob Schultz and George St. George, and from there to South Dakota to research some cousins that homesteaded in Mellette County, to see if I can trace some of those ancestors.
From there to McPherson, Kansas to drop off some books that have the Geiman cousins in them for the historical society or genealogy society or library, from whence I got some of the information about those cousins. And from there, to either Keokuk, Iowa, where Joseph Roop died, or to Warrensburg, Missouri to drop off more books to the library and historical society and to visit my Alma Mater, the University of Central Missouri. While there, I will take flowers to my parents’ graves south of Warrensburg. Whether Keokuk or Warrensburg, I will then go to the other place, before heading to Ohio, where, again, I will drop off books. Maybe, before Ohio, I will head to Elgin, Illinois to visit another Brethren historical repository.
Vital to the Ohio trip is a visit to Ashland County, where Joseph is buried (he who died in Keokuk, father of Isaac Newton Roop, first territorial governor of Nevada), who plays a critical role in the book on which I am working. And I also need to head south from there to Montgomery County and the Dayton area where many of my relatives are buried. Again, I need to drop off books at the Brethren Heritage Center at Brookville, OH and the library in Dayton. The Dayton area is where quite a number of Roops moved to from what is now Carroll County, Maryland. My great-grandfather moved there from Maryland and my grandfather was born there.
From Ohio I move east first to visit an old friend in West Virginia, Harper Grimm, then to familiar stomping grounds: the D. C. area, to visit friends and do more research in Westminster, Maryland. Then I turn around and come home. At least that’s the plan.