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Lyman County, South Dakota Genealogy |
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Dedicated to my son Bill who did all he could to penetrate my brain to teach me about a website before he passed away. I'm sure he's up there just shaking his head every time I mess up another perfectly good page. He always threatened to break my fingers if I didn't leave things alone, but alas, that is my nature ... always trying to "make it better". I hope you find lots of useful information before it gets lost! A little about me MY name is Barbara Stallman-Speck and for what it’s worth, I was born in 1941, in Brule County (because that’s where the hospital is/was.) I was raised in Lyman County, at Reliance, first on a farm, then in Reliance to continue my education until I was 14 and had learned all I needed to know and went off to work in The Silver Leaf Cafe in Chamberlain.There I met my husband Ed and we ran off to the oilfields of New Mexico in 1958. Before returning home in 1978, we followed the oilfield across Colorado, Utah, Nevada (Atomic Energy Commission, but still drilling wells) California, Wyoming, living in some states more than once. We have three sons and one daughter as well as two grandsons and one granddaughter. I returned to South Dakota and Ed continued on to work in Montana and North Dakota (before the oil activity was stifled and hundreds of thousands of us were sent out to pasture) in 1986, kissing our retirement goodbye. It was while we were in Wyoming that I took up the typewriter and started my family research. Within days, I was searching for more, more, more. I was hooked. Along with four friends, the Lyman-Brule Genealogical Society was formed. Then I answered an ad for a project director for a three-county history book and LBGS and other volunteers went to work. That was when I found out I wasn’t just hooked on genealogy, I got hooked on the entire gambit of history and couldn’t find enough for the book fast enough. We walked cemeteries for names and data and also taped conversations with older people who couldn’t come to us. The book, "Of Rails and Trails ... a centennial journey", was a wonderful accomplishment for all of us. Imagine the amazement in 1996 when someone told me about this new world-wide genealogy project and Lyman County was open for a webmaster. The prerequisite was some knowledge about building and maintaining a web site. I asked Bill if I could and he said, "shucks ya", so I emailed the good folks at Rootsweb and I was in. Bill learned during the day and taught me at night ... over and over and over. No guidelines, just get busy gathering anything and everything about the genealogy of Lyman county and upload it to the Internet. My pages are plain old pages ... some a bit helter-skelter, but the data is there. I'd like to think I have improved over the years. I have hundreds of thousands of files and as long as more information can be found, more plain old pages will be filled. No time to look back. Now, I just try to keep up! Every time someone finds someone through this Lyman County website Bill and I know we "done good". I hope you find someone here!!! barbara
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This website Copyright © 1996-2008 by barbara
stallman-speck This page last revised Tuesday January 22, 2008 02:46 PM
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