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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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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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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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