Researching Family History One Record at a Time
Full-length pieces written by family members themselves — memoirs, manuscripts, and published work — reproduced here rather than just cited. Where a person named in one of these pieces has their own profile, their name links there; everyone named is also gathered on the Name Index.
This section is new and growing slowly and deliberately, one piece at a time. Some of what's written here reflects the language and attitudes of when and where it was written rather than how the site's own research pages are written; look for a content note at the top of a piece where that applies.
By John Richard Jackson, with his sister Pauline Roberta "Bubbles" Jackson Bates
John's unpublished memoir of growing up in Creede, Colorado — planned as a joint project with his sister, who never wrote her half. Found among his papers after his death and transcribed here, piece by piece.
By John Richard Jackson, writing as "Thundermug"
John's first self-published book, 1993 — stories collected from his long-running Creede Candle column of the same name, printed by B&B Printing of Gunnison, Colorado and long out of print.