Happy birthday, Darlene!

The amount of raw historical material tucked away in the corners and crannies of the Web boggles the mind; someone working twelve hours a day seven days a week couldn’t even begin to scratch the surface of all that is waiting to be discovered.

As proof, and also in celebration of Darlene Meinert’s birthday, I offer page A-10 of the (Lincoln) Sunday Journal and Star for July 31, 1932.

Halfway down on the second column is a section entitled “Nebraska Vital Statistics,” which includes the announcement of the birth of a daughter to a certain Mr. and Mrs. C. Buller of Lushton. 

The readers of the Sunday Journal and Star may not have known that girl’s name, but we do. There really is no other reasonable explanation, given the date, the reference to Lushton, and the people named—it has to be Darlene!

Finding the announcement of Darlene’s birth is remarkable in and of itself, but it also raises an intriguing question: What other artifacts of the Buller family history lie buried on the Web waiting to be excavated?