Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

Whirlwind geneaology trip leads Minneapolis man to Brantford farm, train depot

Jim Shetler of Minneapolis, Minn. is like so many of us. He has a desire to know from where he came, and he has conducted research into his ancestry on both his mother and father's side. However, the journey he embarked upon this spring is rather out of the ordinary- he is on a genealogy trip on steroids if you will, visiting the very places where his grandparents had been exactly 100 years ago...