President’s Message, October 2016
What a bonus this extended great fall weather has been for those of us who are out checking cemetery headstones! We need to get all of the information we think we need before cold weather and the snow flies so we can do the research this winter. I prefer this time of the year to […]
This Old Tree, September/October 2016
This month’s column is how the Japanese view the family. Japan has always been a class system society. The first is the Imperial family; second the Warrior and Artisans class and thirdly the Farmer/Peasants class. In the 1860’s and early 1870’s there were many social and economic changes during the Meiji period. Starting in 1868, […]