Day 9

Saturday, Oct. 5^th.

At Kearney, Nebraska we left the main trail to do some family research.   All of Glen’s grandparents were born in southeastern Nebraska and my paternal grandparents were born in northeastern Kansas.  Glen’s maternal grandmother was born in Aurora, Nebraska and it has a  museum. The Plainsman Museum  is an amazing museum for a small town and has a small local research room. 

After looking through the museum we spent the morning looking for his family names.  We were told one of the docents had lived in Aurora all his life so we asked him if he knew anything about Glen’s family.  We were all amazed to discover he and Glen are second cousins.   We spent a while talking about relatives we all know. 

We finished the day driving through the pretty town finding the houses his grandparents and great grandparents lived in and where the farm was a couple of miles northwest of town. 

Finding an RV park with wifi is a challenge in rural, southern Nebraska but we found one along Interstate 80 and hunkered down while the wind shook the trailer and a light rain tapped on the roof.  

Back on the trail tomorrow.