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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 […]

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