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Earliest birth date We already took a look at Henry Trumbauer (headstone above) on day 3, earliest burial site. For the earliest birth date, we look at Henry’s father, Andrew Trumbauer. Andrew was part of the first generation of Trumbauer’s that were born in America, his parents being from Germany. He was born in 1717
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A grave you’ve visited I enjoy visiting cemetery’s. I find them eerily calming. I always make an effort to go visit the graves of my ancestors in North Dakota when I’m back home. It doesn’t make me sad. I look forward to it. Okay, sometimes it is a little sad… I’ve visited the Forman Cemetery
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Famous Ancestor I guess this one is kind of up for interpretation and what your definition of “famous” is. I don’t think I have any famous ancestors in my family tree. At least none that I can find. Instead, I looked at a tree I’ve been working on for my co-worker. Her husband’s family is
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Newspaper article: All names have been censored for privacy purposes. This was the first article that hit a little close to home. I had just started exploring Newspapers.com to see what I could find and happened to stumble across this one. I was a little surprised that I had never been told this before. It’s
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Earliest burial site The earliest burial site that I have found where I can 100% accurately trace my ancestors back is Our Forefathers Mennonite Cemetary in Quakertown, PA. This is where my 6th great-grandfather Heinrich “Henry” Trumbauer was buried in 1813. His headstone is extremely weathered and broken but the good news is that there
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Interesting Record These letters have been edited to make the handwriting easier to read. It was done in pencil so parts of it are quite faded. It is in surprisingly good condition to have been written in 1903. I have transcribed it and fixed some of the spelling and grammatical errors. The letter reads: Sep
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Favorite Ancestor I can’t pick a favorite ancestor. There are a handful that take turns for the top spot and right now I would say it is my great-grandma, Alida Sophia Amerman (Bartl). My mom had a very special relationship with Alida, her grandma. Instead of Bethany Marie, I was almost an Aletha Sophia. Out
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I know having many children was pretty common back in the day and my maternal grandfather’s family was no exception. John David and Kathryn Susannah (Trumbauer) had 13 children, 11 surviving. The man in the back row on the left is my 2nd great-grandfather, Charles Romig Martin. He had a reddish tint to his hair
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I lived my first 11 years of life in Jamestown, North Dakota until I became an Alaska transplant. I always like to say that I’m North Dakota born, Alaska grown. I had a lot of friends growing up before moving to Alaska, but I never really felt like I fit in despite getting along with
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I didn’t realize how large my moms side of the family was until I started working on the family tree. I knew my grandpa LeRoy was 1 of 17 children born to Charles and Ida Martin (nèe. Waldo), but it looks a lot bigger on paper, once you add spouses, children and grandchildren. When I
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