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Showing posts with label 52AncestorsIn52Weeks. Show all posts
23 April 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 14 "Begins with a vowel"

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 Emery and Esther Ogden were my maternal grandparents. Two given names and a shared surname that all begin with a vowel. That seems like a g...
05 April 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 13 "Light a Candle"

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Both my paternal and maternal grandparents lost their first child only two days after they were born. With this blog post, I am lighting two...
30 March 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 12 "Membership"

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My great-grandfather Frank J. Kain (pamapa) was a member of the Knights of Columbus in Creighton, NE. I know this thanks to the book "K...
29 March 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 11 "Lucky"

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 When I think of  "Lucky," I think of my parents' marriage of sixty-two years. You cannot get any luckier than to find someone...
10 March 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 10 "Translation"

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One of the things that frustrates me the most in working with my ancestors is trying to determine the spelling of names of some of my German...
04 March 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 9 "Gone Too Soon"

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 First off, am I the only one who did not know that there is a song called "Gone Too Soon" by an artist called Week Nine? Am I the...
03 March 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 8 "I Can Identify"

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I have had my Ogden relations on my mind recently. First I wrote about Jonathan Ogden for Week 7 . Next the Relative at Roots Tech site sh...
28 February 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 7 "Outcast"

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When I think of outcasts in my ancestry, I think of my Loyalist ancestors, cast out of New York to New Brunswick after the American Revoluti...
26 February 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 6 "Social Media"

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 I need to get caught up with the 52 Ancestors prompts. I plan to do several this week until I can get caught up. We'll see how this goe...
04 February 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 5 "Oops!"

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This "oops!" goes out to all of the family trees out there (and there are many of them) that include the false information from th...
29 January 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 4 "Education"

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Esther Louise Johnson in about 1920  On the 1940 US Census, they asked for each person's Highest Grade of School Completed. For my mater...
21 January 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 3 "Out of Place"

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 In the book "The History of Clinton County, Iowa" from 1879 ( The History of Clinton County, Iowa: Containing a History of the Co...
12 January 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 2 "Favorite Photo"

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This week is easy. I use my favorite genealogy photo as my Mastodon banner. I came across this photo several years ago when I was browsing t...
07 January 2023

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Week 1 "I'd Like to Meet"

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For 2023, as a way to get back into blogging, I'm going to try to take part in Amy Johnson Crow 's " 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks ...