Catherine Wheelwright Ockey
328 pages/6X9 inches
ISBN 9780970206749
$20.00
An educational background in writing and historical research, combined with a life-long love of family stories, led Catherine to research and write about her ancestral mothers who emigrated to the Utah Territory in the nineteenth century with the Mormon pioneers. Not a treatise on Mormonism, but a tribute to the unheralded women of the western expansion, the story connects the lives of such people as Diantha Morley Billings, whose family were in Kirtland, Ohio before the Mormons, and Mary Morecroft Greenhalgh, a cotton mill worker from Manchester, England. Along with eight other women, their stories gradually intertwine, as they leave their homelands and gather to the high mountain desert of the Great Basin.
Western U.S. Family History Services
We are now pleased to add family history research to our list of publishing services offered to individuals and businesses. Many people think of family history only in the context of genealogical research, the gathering of ancestral names and dates. If that’s the main focus of your interest in family history, then we recommend that you hire a professional genealogist. At Wheelwright Publishing, our interest and expertise in family history goes beyond the chronology of families to the characters and places that flesh out the stories and make them real to future generations. You may know that your Great Grandfather George was born in Connecticut in 1843 and that he died in San Francisco in 1895, but do you know how he got from one coast to the other? Wouldn’t you like to know what attracted him to California and who the other people were who crossed his path along the way? Or maybe you’ve heard several variations of the story about Uncle Ebenezer panning for gold in Colorado, and you’d really like to know which version is closest to the truth.
It has been our great pleasure to write our own family histories, and we want you to have that pleasure also. We can make the job easier by finding the facts you need to substantiate those old family stories. You provide the skeleton (some basic names and dates) and we will find the flesh to make your ancestors come alive. Then we can coach you on how to write the stories so other family members will want to read them and even offer help with editing and proofreading of your final manuscript. We take care of the details so you can focus on the bigger picture, your family and its place in history.
If you’re just starting out in your search for your ancestors, you may want to have a look at the following resources:
