Old Nebraska Home Holds Family's Long History - http://siouxcityjournal.com/ap/state/old-nebraska-home-holds-family-s-long-history/article_562d9f3e-cc23-5983-adad-36cbe72cd22d.html

This is one of the posts of the Nebraska State Historical Society Facebook page. After reading the article I came up with a few items to ponder about that house, about a neighbor's house and those dwellings of my ancestors.  The story tells about the history of the house of Frederick Planer who built the home for his growing family in 1885. The writer takes the house from original owner to the last person to live in the home.  The last person living in the house moved to a new abode abandoning the original house. It seems strange to me that not one person went back to the 'old house' to pack away and store the belongings.  How did the last owner get to the new place? This person must have had some help to move to the new location, so why did they not get in contact with family members to properly close up the house.  Even the grandchild who the article is about took more than thirty years to return to the house, why did he not return to it before he left the area in 1984? They may have been able to save the house and retrieve more items if someone had been there ten years before.

The opposite happened to a neighbor of my parents.  The owner passed away and the children were left to clean up and ready the house for sale. Unfortunately some of the children 'hired some people' to clean up the house.  What happened next was shocking to me.  These people just tossed items out to the curb like trash underneath some trees which were at the street end of the driveway. Nothing was in boxes.  They had placed a chair, silverware, framed pictures and linens out in the open. When spouse of one of the children came by, they were upset that this could happen.  They intervened and finished cleaning out the home.  While going through the items that were tossed under the trees, family items were found and saved. They were lucky that this had just happened and was not there for days on end.

House research is next on my genealogy to do list. I want to find out more about a house that was torn down to build a new school. I also to find out more about the farms of my ancestors.