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Rozair Joseph Amerman. Sometimes referred to as Joseph Rozair in official documents and affectionately known as Grandpa Joe to his grandchildren. I remember hearing his name a lot growing up and always thought his name was interesting. I appreciate it even more now that I’m older. I think it’s the most unique name in my
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Next to research I’m going to continue to comb through my tree to look for any hidden stories or documents that might still be hanging around. I want to start as recent as my grandparents and “scrub” the tree, removing hints that aren’t related, duplicate documents, and just make it all easier to sift through.
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Earliest record The earliest record I have that I can trace back with 100% certainty is the naturalization record for my 4th great-grandfather Wolfgang Preisinger in 1867. On the hunt now for older records.
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The front of the postcard (above) and the picture below are both from the Painted Desert in Arizona. I would love to put that and the Petrified Forest National Park on my travel bucket list, but I’m afraid I would melt in the heat. It is incredibly beautiful, though. The card itself talks about the
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6/27 – brick wall success6/28 – ancestor you’d like to meet I’d like to meet two ancestors. The first being my great-grandma Alida, on my mom’s side. She was a spitfire with an incredible sense of humor. She also endured more than anyone should have to and I want to know more about that. I
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Criminal in the family Depending on how I look at this prompt, I see two options. The first is that I don’t have a criminal in the family. When I think “criminal” I think serial killer. Bank robber. Gang member. Arsonist. Something like that. I don’t have any of those in my family that I
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DNA discovery When I first got my DNA results back from Ancestry, I was surprised to see that I was less Norwegian than I thought I was, and more German. At the beginning, the Ancestry DNA kits didn’t give you a whole lot of information other than a breakdown of your ancestral regions. Fast forward
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Oldest Photo I think these are two of my oldest photos. I can’t be completely sure when they were taken. Above is Wolfgang “Frank” Preisinger (1830-1898). According to the person who uploaded this photo onto Ancestry.com, it was taken in the 1890’s. Frank died at the age of 68. Below are Wolfgang, his wife Julianna,
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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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