Category: Walton genealogy
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A Week of Ancestors
May 19 to May 25 BIRTHS: What is about Jennie that makes me want to know more about her life? She appears in several other family trees on Ancestry, but the fact fields tend to be incomplete and sources are scarce. Eugenia Schmitt was born in Cincinnati on 21 May…
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A Week of Ancestors
April 28 to May 4 BIRTHS: I first “met” Amanda Sofia Karlsdotter Tolf years ago in a softly lit Family History Center. According to the 1880 census I viewed on the FHC’s microfilm, Amanda and her older sister Frida were working as housemaids in the Geneva Illinois home of a…
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A Week of Ancestors
April 7 to 13 My mother called her grandpa ‘Boppa’. Harry Wilhelm Tolf was my mother’s maternal grandfather born April 7, 1884, in Batavia, Kane, Illinois. Harry’s parents were Swedish immigrants who raised their three children in the far west suburb of Chicago. The family was tightly knit; when Harry’s…
