genealogy
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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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Recent discovery This discovery is as recent as it gets. I just checked my e-mail to find that my order from the Iron Range Research Center in Minnesota had been completed. A week or two ago, I requested a copy of a Declaration of Intent, which was the “first step toward naturalization for most persons
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Residence: then & now This is the house that I spent much of my childhood in. It looks smaller now. The light colored deck was not there and we didn’t have a fence around the yard. We probably should have…our dog was not the nicest to strangers… The red brick-ish building you can see a
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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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A family heirloom I wouldn’t say that anything has necessarily been passed down to me through generations, other than all the family history work that my uncle has done and whoever had come before him. I think that is probably the most important heirloom. Knowledge. Other than that… I have my dad’s army uniform that
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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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8/4/1948 Hi honey, We are now in St. Ignace, came over on this ferry. 80 cars on it. Very windy. On our way to Saint Ignace Marie. Hope all is well with you. Love, mom and dad. I was able to find a census report for 1930, 1940, that mention JoAnne, but when we get
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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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