December 22, 2020January 7, 2021Other eras Was living on a South Dakota farm in the 1930s closer to life in the Viking Age than what life is like today? In recent years I have been exploring the Viking Era. You can […]
December 7, 2020December 7, 2020Other eras “An Ulvog Journey” – Tales of growing up on a South Dakota farm in the 1930s and 1940s. Casting my CPA eye on the 1946 probate document for my grandfather’s […]
February 19, 2020February 19, 2020Other eras Raising watermelons as cash crop. One source of cash on my grandparent’s farm was raising watermelons, going […]
January 6, 2020January 6, 2020Other eras More thoughts about life on a farm in 1946 Been thinking more on what life was like on the farm after […]
December 30, 2019January 3, 2020Other eras Observations of life on a farm in 1946 Life was hard after my grandfather passed from this vale of tears. […]
December 27, 2019December 8, 2019Other eras Guess at value of 1946 estate expressed in 2019 dollars The values assigned to my grandfather’s estate when it was probated […]
December 23, 2019December 8, 2019Other eras Adjustment of prices from 1946 to 2019 Is there some way to adjust the prices described in my […]
December 20, 2019December 2, 2019Other eras Consumer price index from 1940 through 2019 For an indicator of the changes in prices from the World War […]
December 2, 2019November 30, 2019Other eras Economic life on a farm in 1945: family size This is the seventh in a series of posts exploring the economic […]
July 22, 2019Other eras Picture of life on a South Dakota farm based on what can be seen in a probate document In 1945 my paternal grandfather departed this vail of tears. The probate […]