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Surprising discovery I’ve posted about him before, but this is Michael O’Laughlen (1840-1867). He is a somewhat distant ancestor of my work bestie’s-husband and an Abraham Lincoln assassination co-conspirator. He was a childhood friend of John Wilkes Booth. He would claim that he dropped out of the plot to kill Lincoln, but he did end
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Research goal I don’t necessarily have very lofty research goals, but finding out where my dad’s side of the family is the most important one for me. My dad passed away almost 2 years ago now, so I am the last one in my branch of the family tree to be a Misemer. After me,
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Shout out your favorites! My maternal grandparents will always be my favorite. I spent so much time with them growing up. They were a very important part of my childhood. My first two tattoos were to honor them. A puzzle heart with a missing piece for Grandpa because he loved doing puzzles and a yellow
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Occupation Blacksmith. I think I’ve posted about him before, but my 3rd great-grandfather, Lars Gullickson, was a pretty well known blacksmith in North Dakota. His parents, Albert and Ingeborg, were both from Norway, making Lars first-generation American. Fun fact: Lars’ mustache is 100% genetic. A couple of Lars’ sons ended up learning the trade as
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Uncovered secret I don’t have any relevant pictures for this post since it does not come from my own family tree. This one was also a little hard for me because I don’t feel like I’ve uncovered and secrets in my own family tree. At least none that are memorable. For a long while, my
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Favorite Story This is the last picture that I took with my grandpa Leroy. My mom’s dad. I was 21 and Alzheimer’s was not so slowly consuming him. He could not call me by name, but he definitely, definitely, knew who I was. It was no secret that I was grandpa’s favorite and biggest troublemaker.
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Happy Father’s Day to all the different kinds of dads out there! My partner (aka cat-dad) asked me if I had a special post for today. Honestly, I hadn’t thought about it. So I went through the majority of my post cards looking for ones that were “to” or “from” dad, and was surprised to
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Free resources The National Genealogical Society and Find A Grave are my two favorite free resources. I check the Genealogical Society website almost daily to see what free (and paid) webinars they have to offer. On the weekends I can easily find 3-4 throughout the day and they often overlap. During the week it’s hard
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Brick wall struggle Genealogy, family history, research… all of those things make my brain happy. I enjoy doing it and it’s one of the few things that can solely keep my attention for many hours. I’ve always loved it. But the thing that got me interested in my family history was my dad’s dad, my
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A family myth This was kind of a hard one. There are some not so great family myths that are floating around out there but I don’t think I’ll share those. There is too much hate and anger going on in the world right now and I’m choosing to focus on the positive things. One
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