The follwoing excerpt is from the October 26, 2012 edition of the Great Falls Tribune:
Talk began in 2004 among genealogy buffs about writing a book about Great Falls’ early residents.
Members of the Great Falls Genealogy Society and others would try to list everyone who lived in Great Falls in its early years. It would be a lot of work, maybe even a crazy project to take on.
“We were naive, delightfully naive,” Janet Thomson, editor of the book, said with a smile.
Eight years later, a pair of soft-cover books, “Early Settlers of Great Falls,” volumes 1 and 2, are available for sale, covering the period from the city’s founding in 1884 to 1920, after World War I was over.
The book can be a great research tool, but it’s also fun to read, Thomson said. It traces the rapid growth of Great Falls, from a concept in the 1880s through periods of heavy growth.
