Tag: Genealogy
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Trimming the Family Tree
I print three calendars monthly from Family Tree Maker. One is for all the births in my family tree that occur in that month, another is for marriages and the last is for deaths. The font has to be very small in order for the names to fit in each…
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Library Lock-In
I was today years old when I went to my first library lock-in. What a fun experience! Hosted by the Grand Rapids History Center and the Western Michigan Genealogical Society (WMGS), the Grand Rapids Public Library was open from 6-10pm last Friday evening exclusively to those of us who had…
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A Week of Ancestors 5/19
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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Delayed Gratification
This morning I put a second coat of paint on a small shelf and a mailing tube. The shelf had been in our garage for years. The mailing tube contained a Swedish family history chart dating back to 1620, a gift from my cousin, another Tolf descendant. In its new…
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Thoughts on Find A Grave? Share Them Here!
I’m currently working on a 2016 series of blog posts about Find A Grave
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Chicago Daily News Obituaries; 05 Dec 1903
My transcription above is exactly as the notices appeared in the December 5, 1903 issue of the Chicago Daily News
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Peter Swanson 1848-1937
From the July 1, 1937 edition of the St. Charles (Illinois) Chronicle; “PETER SWANSON The passing of Peter Swanson of 1042 4th street south Friday, after an illness of several weeks, removes an olden time and respected resident who has lived in this vicinity for nearly 70 years. Mr. Swanson…
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Signatures of My Ancestors
One of my favorite genealogical finds is the signature of an ancestor. Imagine my excitement when I saw four at the same time! My 2nd great-grandfather’s probate record contained signatures of all three of his children and that of his daughter-in-law: Jacob Koebe Mueller (1844-1910) was the father of Otto Victor…
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Harriette Kathlyn Tolf 1909-1954
Every once in awhile I will stumble across a photo that makes me do a double-take. Do you have any of those in your tree? A picture of one person who looks so much like someone else in your tree you almost think it’s a… well…an impossibility? This picture had that effect…
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