Research, stories, and resources tracing one family’s history of immigration and migration.

Sarah Jane Edgerton Smith and the Lawrence Massacre

August 21, 1863, Lawrence Kansas

As the Kansas Border Wars, or Bleeding Kansas, boiled over, Lawrence, Kansas found its citizens in a flashpoint to the Civil War blah blah blah

Samuel Smith: An American Emigration Journey

Congressional Testimony, Kansas Troubles, 1863

Samuel Smith arrived in Kansas in after an already long life of moving westward when he found himself in a stand-off blah blah blah