Roots to Branches | Long Ago News Blog

Jun 20
1 min

Ricki King is the family historian for you

Research Specialties: private investigator, family history research on living and the dead, record lookup, consultations, organizing researc

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Ricki King

Jun 18
6 min

Iowa Genealogical Society Locality Guide

Locality Guide · Iowa Genealogical Society · List of Iowa county genealogy societies that are members of the Iowa Genealogical Society. ·...

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Ricki King

Jun 11
1 min

Importance of the 1925 Iowa Census

Ricki King, the owner of Roots to Branches Genealogy, wrote the story. Elbert Sales Corp. publishes the magazine in the April/May 2020 is...

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Ricki King

Jun 4
1 min

Possibly the last slave in Iowa and in person research

I am currently doing a research project about Blacks in Iowa. I came across a story in the Annals of Iowa titled "Passing of a Former Sla...

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Ricki King

May 22
7 min

Whose name is that on my headstone?

My neighbors call me Darky Charley. No, my parents did not name me Darky Charley it was my neighbors in Reinbeck, Iowa. Yes, I am Black.

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Ricki King

Apr 20
1 min

Catching up with Ricki King

Why has there been no new blog post? What have I been up to lately? Well, I have been setting up the Roots to Branches Genealogy office. ...

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Apr 2
0 min

Newspaper humor

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Ricki King

Mar 20
1 min

Wondering what to do since ordered to stay home or soon to be.

Getting tired of watching TV, listening to music, or finding a new place to sit in your home. Now, is the time to start your family histo...

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Ricki King

Mar 17
2 min

Iowa's Only Registered Negro Nurse

A friend shared this July 1908 story with me about Lulu V. Nelson. The text of the story is transcribed and follows as printed in The Reg...

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Mar 3
1 min

There are Blacks in Grinnell

New book about Blacks in Iowa. Hear the author talk about the book. https://soundcloud.com/user-241121222/grinnell-stories-feb-25-2020 Pu...

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Feb 19
0 min

A bit about our services. New phone number 515-779-4394.

Learn a bit about Roots To Branches Genealogy. New phone number 515-779-4394.

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Feb 13
0 min

Black History Month

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Ricki King

Dec 25, 2019
1 min

Youngest Officer Capt. E. C. Little

THE YOUNGEST OFFICER.-The question having been raised as to who was the youngest officer who was commissioned in Iowa regiments during th...

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Ricki King

Dec 21, 2019
3 min

How did you get your name? Two different stories.

I was born and given a boy's name Ricki.

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Ricki King

Dec 19, 2019
1 min

Meskwaki Native Americans also Known as Fox

Horrible punishment for murder in 1873. The Musquakie Indians,in Jasper County, inflicted a terrible punishment upon a murderer of their ...

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Ricki King

Dec 18, 2019
1 min

The story is the ad

Ad within sleepy bug story is one word. The cream was well known enough that the Gourand's name was used once in the story. What is being...

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Ricki King

Dec 5, 2019
3 min

Sleepy bugs in the corners of your eyes.

"The habit of washing the face in the morning prevails, but with many person is the only time in twenty-four hours..."

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Ricki King

Nov 20, 2019
1 min

A BABY INTERVIEWED.

To A LITTLE ONE, JUST A WEEK OLD. Only a baby, ‘thout any hair, ‘Cept just a little hair here and there. Only a baby, name you have none;...

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Ricki King

Nov 3, 2019
4 min

Iowa's first Black presidential candidate

Who was the first black person from Iowa to run for President of the United States? If you study presidential history you know this, righ...

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Ricki King

Sep 30, 2019
4 min

Des Moines is getting old. Death comes to a pioneer of Des Moines.

“George Sneer, one of the three oldest settlers in Des Moines, drops dead. (25 August 1891) Stricken with heart disease at the Elliot Far...

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