Tag: Idaho Daily Statesman

Hunt is on for phony POW’s…

By Thomas Jay Kemp on December 23, 2008

Today’s Chicago Tribune has an interesting article by Steve Mills about Mary and Chuck Schantag of the P.O.W. Network who say they have exposed close to 1,900 people who have falsely claimed to be prisoners of war. Click here to read the article “Hunt is on for Phony POW’s“. A quick check of GenealogyBank... (Read More)

Did you get snow? Bet it was nothing like the snow of 1898.

By Thomas Jay Kemp on December 22, 2008

We got snow this weekend – lots of it. Here’s a picture showing the snow piled on the railing of our back deck. But, it was nothing like the Blizzard of 1898 – with 15′ high snow drifts. We found many articles about the Blizzard of 1898 in GenealogyBank – including this one… …about... (Read More)