Find Dad’s College Letters Part Two Here My dad, Robert Milo Wallin, would have turned 90 this coming week. He’s been gone 20 years now—I had only 38 years with him on this earth… His sense of humor was one of my favorite things about him. Dad skipped a couple of grades in school, so he …
He was the last person I would ever have expected to be interested in genealogy—and what I found out about his roots was the last thing I would have guessed. It was late 2011 and I needed a new genealogy project. My husband had mentioned my hobby at the manufacturing plant where he works, and …
This is the story of my grandma Wallin’s oldest sister, Anna Marie Peterson Genoways (1887-1928). She was a schoolteacher, like I used to be; and she found love later in life, like I did. Anna was the oldest of eight children, born to Swedish immigrants who farmed on the plains of Nebraska, near the Platte …
My husband’s paternal grandmother was a Carriveau by birth. They were a family who seemed to live under a shadow of misfortune. The patriarch of the family was Laurent Corriveau, who came from Quebec to Michigan in the late 1800s after his young wife died (probably in childbirth). He and his second wife Eugenie, who …
My father- and mother-in-law met in an unusual way—through letters. Their story began in 1944… War had been declared, and Norman Mosey, a farm boy from Michigan, was newly drafted into the U.S. Navy. A reporter for Michigan Farmer magazine did a story about ‘our boys in the service” and when he asked Norman, “What …
Thanks to Susan Wallin Mosey for sharing this guest post. I had an epiphany this week, with the help of my co-worker Robin. Here it is: Ancestry binders can be wonderful gifts for those who have the memory loss that old-age dementia brings. It makes sense, really… It’s common knowledge that, as a person loses …
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