Once you become known as the Official Family Historian, a wonderful phenomenon begins to occur. Relatives, especially older ones, begin to give you things, saying, “I know you’ll take care of this. I don’t want it to be thrown out after I’m gone!” My Aunt Janet recently left a box with me. One of the …
I am looking for someone. But this time, for a change, it’s not a dead person! I have been working on a genealogy binder for a client from Florida. Her grandmother Francis, now deceased, was married for a long time to a man named Joseph Roy Crews. My client has some things that belonged to …
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Sometimes you think you know a person… especially if that person is your father. I’ve been researching the paternal line of one of my clients. He thought he knew his father, Emiel Zietzke, pretty well—it was his grandfather, Wilhelm Zietzke, who was the main object of his curiosity. But his father’s life has turned out …
Image at left: These do look comfortable, but 200?? My mom’s love of collecting things made her incredibly easy to shop for. Every Christmas and birthday my brother and I could rotate between the champagne flute/candlestick/mini pitcher/teapot/padded coat hanger obsessions. Actually, my brother stopped at padded coat hangers. That’s all he bought her for about …
Recently I found the 1848 Ohio marriage record for my husband’s 2nd great-grandfather, John Garver (1821-1901) and his wife Mary Ann Overly (1829-1890). Often I give these types of records a cursory glance, looking for the names and dates I need—but this time I read the old, handwritten record closely, and it gave me pause. …
Thank you to Susan D. Harris for this guest post. Image at left: “My grandmother (Martha) as a little girl with her mother, Nola Carson Gordon and brother Lewis.” When I was young, an old Victrola sat in the corner of our living room that had belonged to my mother’s family. The relic of a bygone era, …
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“La Corriveau”… Her real name was Marie-Josephte Corriveau, and she was one of the most infamous murderers in Canadian history. She was born in 1733 near Quebec, and she is my husband’s 2nd cousin, 6 times removed. This is a bronze sculpture of her from the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec. According to …
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Many of our readers have expressed interest in more community interaction on Family History Daily, so we thought we’d give you a chance to share some of your family stories! Not long after we launched our Facebook page we asked our followers to tell us who the most well-known person was in their family tree …
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While researching the ancestry of my sister-in-law Susie, I came across the stories of two sisters—Anna and Eva Grimm. I wrote about Anna in a separate post, so now it’s Eva’s turn. Eva Grimm was born around 1886 in Aurora, Illinois, and married her husband Alfred Wyatt in 1908. The marriage was not a match …
Here are memories of life on an Illinois farm, as recalled by my mother, Adra Erickson Wallin (1922-2010)… “I was born at home (all four of us were), at the farm at Barbers Corner on August 18, 1922, at six in the morning. A nurse and a doctor came—Dr. Ludwig—but I was born before he …
One Girl’s Childhood During the Great Depression Read More »