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Showing posts with label Ogden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ogden. Show all posts
15 August 2026

Back In the Saddle Again

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The itch to write has been bugging me for too, too long. So here I am once again blogging about my family history research after a break of ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
15 February 2021

Was William F. Ogden a US Citizen?

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Now that I am retired all of my time is now 100% my time. (Well, some of it does belong to my wife, I suppose.) I need to find interesting w...
20 February 2017

Ogdens and Tooles

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I recently received an email about a DNA match from someone looking for information on Tooles in New Brunswick. I have Tooles in my family ...
19 November 2013

NE/SD Family History Road Trip (part 4)

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Day 6, Thursday, Oct. 24 Thursday we headed east for Geddes, SD passing through Yankton and Bon Homme County on our way there. Our ...
08 April 2012

Census Sunday: Emery Ogden Family in 1940 US Census

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Here is my transcription of the census entry for my mother's family from the 1940 US Census. State: SD County: Shannon Township,...
05 April 2012

More 1940 US Census Finds

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I found my mother's family. They have a page all to themselves in Shannon Co., SD, ED 57-2. And here in Mission, Todd Co., SD ED 61...
01 April 2012

Census Sunday: 1940 US Census

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I've identified the eleven ancestors that I want to look up on Tuesday. 2. Joseph A. Huigens, Jr 3. Shirley A, Ogden 4. Joseph A. Hui...
31 March 2012

SNGF: Guess Your Ancestor's 1940 Census Data

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Here's tonight's topic from Randy Seaver: Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Guess Your Ancestor's 1940 Census Data Hey genea-census...