Genealogoy My father's side - The Bolingers

   My mother's side as far as genealogy goes is very well documented. Every generation including my mother has added to the genealogical research over time and throughout their lives. My mother had to mail things to Salt Lake City from Portland Oregon in her time and we in this generation can just go to a computer and use websites like Ancestry.com and Family Search.
   Even those methods have their limitations though because while I have been able to find a great deal of information on my mother's side online such is not the case with my father's family. Some of it is documented online but nowhere near as much. I know there are ways to get around that but I've just got to learn all those little tricks and secrets that professional genealogists use. I may even have to write or email to Kansas to get the info I do need but I am not to that point yet.

This is what I do know:

My grandfather was Earl Russell Bolinger and he was born November 3rd 1898 in Kansas It could have been Redfield Kansas but I am not sure. To me the fact that I was born in 1970, Seventy two whole years after that is so interesting.
This is a picture of him with his second wife, my grandmother, Gertrude. He married her when she was only eighteen and they had five children of whom all are still alive today. My dad was either their third or fourth child as I am not certain whether my dad or my uncle was born first. They are identical twins.

I never had the opportunity to meet my Grandfather because he died in 1959. But there is no shortage of stories about him. I will tell some of those stories and go further back into my father's side with the next genealogical post.