tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49379206895385706002024-02-19T04:54:57.366-06:00Hanging from the Family TreeDetailing my genealogy adventures.Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.comBlogger456125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-86853632551139983272021-04-28T12:04:00.001-05:002021-04-28T12:04:51.624-05:00Genealogy Adventures - Certification: Beginning the Journey<p> I haven’t posted often this year
because I am spending this year preparing to submit a portfolio and apply for
certification as a genealogist. For the past eleven years I have been writing about the various members of my ancestry as I uncover their stories. For Certification purposes, I must use my own work and there can be no critiquing or comments from others incorporated into the submitted work, so it has been difficult to continue to write about family and risk endangering my portfolio. I don't want to totally abandon the blog so I will make some sporadic posts unrelated to my portfolio.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -4.5pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqR1NLYRu6TfsP2M4nE5NkyV_uuXn9ZX2Q1sdb1GTCsZPogqimVi-cX41Ub2N8AB0Sfw4LQ2SeXmTZeg_9VHKkwDSAYGX4L7_a7ECK5g5Y8QE_vhMPB5LRjOCp-hhs6eElEcLQ4Ic6s_0p/s404/Intro+to+genetic+genealogy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="303" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqR1NLYRu6TfsP2M4nE5NkyV_uuXn9ZX2Q1sdb1GTCsZPogqimVi-cX41Ub2N8AB0Sfw4LQ2SeXmTZeg_9VHKkwDSAYGX4L7_a7ECK5g5Y8QE_vhMPB5LRjOCp-hhs6eElEcLQ4Ic6s_0p/w155-h206/Intro+to+genetic+genealogy.jpg" width="155" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -4.5pt;"> I think I began to consider certification
as a possibility for me in 2019 when I took my first virtual class with the Salt
Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG). </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -4.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -4.5pt;">That first class, Intermediate
Foundations, met for three hours a week for ten weeks and I probably spent ten
to fifteen a week doing the assignments. It covered the multiple types of
records used by genealogists. Where to find them and how to use them. I was
happy to learn that I could work at the intermediate level with ease and began
to seriously consider certification.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -4.5pt; text-indent: 4.5pt;">In January of
2020 I went to Salt Lake City for a resident class “Introduction to Genetic
Genealogy”. A solid week of classes with about thirty other DNA/Genealogy
geeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was an amazing experience and
my article about my experiences was published in the Utah Genealogy Association
magazine <i>Crossroads</i>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: -4.5pt; text-align: center; text-indent: 4.5pt;">(Next installment the Covid effect)<o:p></o:p></p>Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-29363679680092756752021-02-10T16:15:00.000-06:002021-02-10T16:15:00.014-06:00I’ve been Hanging From the Family Tree for 11 years!<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGtzXKTrf8Zowq2fMRs6AueoVortB_Rcq9OkW8WHFDcM2tHa-3BzqTuQulqqL__XIfZdApI8Ost5WxcwREBVwhrU3hUZUgNpbRizk9DZJiuoD5-C3RqZXRDPB1tskLCCpMn1XbiZpqFEU3/s2145/Celebrate.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="2145" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGtzXKTrf8Zowq2fMRs6AueoVortB_Rcq9OkW8WHFDcM2tHa-3BzqTuQulqqL__XIfZdApI8Ost5WxcwREBVwhrU3hUZUgNpbRizk9DZJiuoD5-C3RqZXRDPB1tskLCCpMn1XbiZpqFEU3/w506-h114/Celebrate.png" width="506" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #00b050;">Hanging From the Family Tree is 11!</span></b><span style="color: #00b050;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It’s my Blogiversary! Eleven years! When I began to blog about
my genealogy adventures in 2010, it was never my expectation that I would
continue this long.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Over time, I have written about my ancestors, my husband’s
ancestors and genealogy related trips I have taken. I have set new goals at the
end of each year and reviewed the past goals to see where I have met my goals
or not.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This past year, I was not very successful with regular
posting but I realized that my focus has been gradually changing. Lately I have
become more concerned with the quality of my research than with the quantity of
the research. Realizing this, I have been taking advantage of the plethora of
online education that is currently available.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am going to apply to become a Certified Genealogist. To
that end my adventures in genealogy will take a different path for a while. I
will “go on the clock” in June, which means that I will have one year after my
application is accepted to submit a portfolio of very specific work products,
not to exceed 150 pages, to the Board for Certification of Genealogists. I have
been taking classes to that end for the past two years and am currently taking
two additional classes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am also supplementing the class work by reading samples of
the submissions of others. Right now I am beginning to determine the projects I
will work on for my portfolio.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This year’s posts will probably be more about certification
than family, but it is still genealogy!<o:p></o:p></p>Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-65518345273804094962020-12-31T10:38:00.000-06:002020-12-31T10:38:02.656-06:00Year End 2020 - Onward to New Challenges<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The end of this long year has finally arrived! Now is the
time to review the goals I set for the year and set new goals for 2021.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 112.5pt;">I have finished to work to prove
my daughter and son’s relationship to their Revolutionary War patriot. It was a
long process, but I am proud that I was able to complete it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 112.5pt;">Once again, I was part of Amy
Johnson Crow’s “52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks” project to encourage writing
regularly. Sadly, my posts were even fewer than last year. I will still belong
this year and hope to do better.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 112.5pt;">As the world changed in March, so
did all our lives. Genealogy classes went online and soon we all learned Zoom
so we could participate. My local genealogy group began holding their regular
monthly meetings on Zoom. National genealogy institutes adapted their classes
to Zoom and we could learn from home.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 112.5pt;">Since March, I have taken eight
genealogy classes of various intensity. Some were week-long, held daily from 9 until
5, some were <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>three hours weekly for 7 to
10 weeks, one meets monthly for a one-year period. All were taught by highly
qualified instructors with a firm grasp of the material.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 112.5pt;">In June I made the decision to
become a certified genealogist. I set a timetable for my self and began to
implement in. I resigned as program chair for my local genealogy group. I took
two institute classes and two virtual classes with the Salt Lake Institute of
Genealogy (SLIG) and will attend two week-long sessions at SLIG in January. I
will also be taking a session at SLIG academy in February that ends in April. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 112.5pt;">As part of my preparation for submitting
my portfolio, I have asked members of my local genealogy group to give me their
“brick walls” so I can practice doing Research Reports for clients. I am
currently working on the second case of the four I have lined up.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 112.5pt;">My plan is to spend the time from
June 2020 until June 2021 further educating my self and practicing writing
client reports. I will also identify the lines for the case study and kinship
determination proof. In June 2021 I will submit my application to the Board for
Certification of Genealogists and officially “go on the clock”, which will give
me until June of 2022 to submit my complete portfolio.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 112.5pt;">Hey, I just planned not one but
two years of genealogy! Now to get cracking.<o:p></o:p></p>Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-25325011251575119632020-09-03T11:12:00.000-05:002020-09-03T11:12:59.699-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 36 Labor<p> </p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #b3eb9d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://hangingwithdonna.blogspot.com/2018/03/week-10-of-52-ancestors-in-52-weeks.html" style="color: #b3eb9d; text-decoration-line: none;">Week 10 of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - "The Nickel That Grew Up" *</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: #b3eb9d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6132720533232612287" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: #b3eb9d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520.045px;"><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15.4px;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"><br /></span></div><div style="clear: both; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: center;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(237, 237, 237); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #515151; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlWMwprQ0Ql9xZJVPG3dozh3vYgNS4ZcFTMk4Fa4Ws-RpJX28h81G5EKbIMw8B1zlmJ6Zuu9KZJYxFYe5Bk9cOc-RblQY1zwOGW86tfbCjncx1yd53-mPoipfxe7T2c87AGaskX8rbqhLV/s1600/mrs+snyders.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #741b47; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1097" data-original-width="1397" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlWMwprQ0Ql9xZJVPG3dozh3vYgNS4ZcFTMk4Fa4Ws-RpJX28h81G5EKbIMw8B1zlmJ6Zuu9KZJYxFYe5Bk9cOc-RblQY1zwOGW86tfbCjncx1yd53-mPoipfxe7T2c87AGaskX8rbqhLV/s400/mrs+snyders.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.32px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Women shoppers at Mrs. Snyder's Candy shop<br />South Michigan Ave 1927<br />credit Pintrest</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;">Did someone have an unusual job? Ora Hanson Snyder did! Ora created a business to support her family. I've told her story before but it bears repeating. Not only did Ora create a successful business, she employed several members of her extended family.</div><br /><h4 style="margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;">My husband and his sister often reminisced about visiting their grandmother and going to a candy store where they could eat candy for free. In exploring this memory, I found that the store was owned by their great-aunt who founded the store that would become a Chicago institution.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;">Aurora Henrietta Hanson was the seventh child born to Oloff Hanson and Mary Hepke. She was born in Michigan City, LaPorte, Indiana 12 Mar 1876.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 19.9733px;">[i]</span></span></span></a> She was baptized in the Lutheran church there and shortly after her birth the family moved to Chicago, Cook, Illinois. </span>Perhaps her father, Oloff, a fisherman, felt that the larger city would provide a better market for his daily catch.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;">Aurora’s mother died in 1881 due to childbirth. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 19.9733px;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> Her large family was left to cope with the loss. Aurora was only five at the time, but her older sister Lizbet married two years later and may have taken Aurora with her until her marriage in 1894 to William Allen Snyder.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 19.9733px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">[iii]</a></span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;">The 1900 census shows Ora (Aurora) and William living with their daughter Edith and his parents George and Mary on Ellis Ave in Chicago where William is working as a bookkeeper.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 1px solid rgb(237, 237, 237); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #515151; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivaxDtgBxHFfXD51Zx3BLKya1I4xB1CP7JUM4S4lPI4Od5R9tJeMtWaGV7rBhnSrgsBEGJk5fWo3yPsk5nEFAreRiWbvN-PgER4k9V1g40HEtG1roKvh-GYfylEr22BRCdCm9TPH_sTpnT/s1600/mrs+snyders+desc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #741b47; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="576" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivaxDtgBxHFfXD51Zx3BLKya1I4xB1CP7JUM4S4lPI4Od5R9tJeMtWaGV7rBhnSrgsBEGJk5fWo3yPsk5nEFAreRiWbvN-PgER4k9V1g40HEtG1roKvh-GYfylEr22BRCdCm9TPH_sTpnT/s320/mrs+snyders+desc.jpg" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption">The Atlantic, Chocolate Dipped: The Popularity of Custom Candy in 1940s Chicago</td><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption">SHANNON PERICH JAN 29, 2012 </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;">In 1909, with only a cup of sugar and an egg white, using only five cents worth of ingredients, Ora began making candies in her kitchen to sell to the school children after school. This was necessary to support her family after her husband became too ill to work. At a friend’s suggestion she took her candies to downtown Chicago where they were much sought after.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 19.9733px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">[iv]</a></span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;">By 1920 the Snyders were the owners of a confectionary factory according to the census and by 1925 she owned 8 stores and in 1931 she was elected the first continued woman president of Associated Retail Confectioners of the United States.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 19.9733px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">[v]</a></span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;">Ora Snyder continued to watch her business grow and by the time of her death in 1948 she owned 16 shops, one of which was a 7-story building. </span>In the 1960s Mrs. Snyder’s Candies and its 15 stores was purchased by Fannie Mae Candies there by ending an era.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="line-height: 19.9733px;">Ora was a strong woman who found a way to support her family and created a business using her skills and determination to succeed. "I can't make all the candy in the world, so I just make the best of it." <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 19.9733px;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">[vi]</a></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15.4px; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 15.4px; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;">* The Green Book Magazine, Volumes 21-22, pages 87-88,Story-Press association, 1919, from the University of Michigan, Digitized Oct 22, 2009 Google Books</span></div><br /><div style="font-size: 15.4px;"><div id="edn1"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">[i]</span></span></span></a> Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="edn2"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">[ii]</span></span></span></a> Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois, Deaths Index, 1878-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="edn3"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">[iii]</span></span></span></a> Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois, Marriages Index, 1871-1920 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="edn4"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">[iv]</span></span></span></a> The Atlantic, Chocolate Dipped: The Popularity of Custom Candy in 1940s Chicago<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-align: left;">SHANNON PERICH JAN 29, 2012 <o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="edn5"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">[v]</span></span></span></a> Ibid <o:p></o:p></div></div><div id="edn6"><div class="MsoEndnoteText" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="color: #741b47; text-decoration-line: none;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14.2667px;">[vi]</span></span></span></a> The Green Book Magazine, Volumes 21-22, pages 87-88,Story-Press association, 1919, from the University of Michigan, Digitized Oct 22, 2009 Google Books</div></div></div></h4></div>Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-73118790075184715492020-06-27T12:57:00.000-05:002020-06-27T12:57:43.951-05:00A Fine Day for a Wedding no Matter the Year!<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: #b3eb9d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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June 28, ????<br /><br />This is a date permanently etched in our family's history.<br />Alice Fleming and Michael Connery were married June 28, 1893<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Pauline Connery (daughter of Alice and Michael) and William F Ryan were married June 28, 1928<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Elizabeth Mary Connery(daughter of Alice and Michael) and Donald Hansen were married June 28 1941 (my parents)<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Alice Ryan (daughter of Pauline Connery) married George Sterling II June 28, 1951<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />William F Ryan II (son of Pauline Connery Ryan) and Barbara Brown were married June 28 1956<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br /><br />At least one more of my cousins also share this anniversary date. Who says the Irish aren't sentimental? Alice and Elizabeth wore the same dress.</div>
Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-49140127009525587702020-06-17T11:18:00.002-05:002020-06-17T11:18:43.906-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 21 - Tombstone<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Find a Grave</em><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #666666; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">, database and images (</span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1775a5; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.findagrave.com</a><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #666666; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> : accessed </span><span id="dateHolder" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">17 June 2020</span><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #666666; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">), memorial page for Addie Ferguson (unknown–24 Sep 1902), Find a Grave Memorial no. </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16051129/addie-ferguson" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1775a5; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration-line: none;">16051129</a><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #666666; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">, citing Mound Cemetery, Hunt City, Jasper County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by Bonnie Woods Martin (contributor </span><a href="https://www.findagrave.com/user/profile/46826275" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1775a5; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration-line: none;">46826275</a><span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #666666; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">) .<br /></span></td></tr>
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In the fall of 2004, my husband and I made a trip to the
area of Southern Illinois where his ancestors had farmed since the 1850s.
Jasper County, Illinois home to places named Willow Hill, Liberty, and Hunt
City. One of the places we went to was Mound Cemetery where his maternal
grandparents are buried.</div>
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As we wandered the cemetery looking for their graves, we
came upon one which yielded information we never expected to find, My husband’s
great-grandmother, Addie Chapman Ferguson, died on 24 Sep 1902, just four days shy
of her twenty-fourth birthday. She was survived by her husband John and children
Edna, 6 and Murl 4. This information was well known but her tombstone revealed
the births and deaths of two other children, Clifford and Raymond, each having
lived only four months.Because these babies were born and died between the census
years, there would be no record to tell us of their existence.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-50605917397683166302020-06-16T15:35:00.000-05:002020-06-16T15:37:07.164-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks– Week 24 – Handed Down<br />
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of the many things handed down to me by my parents is the Guest Log.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Guest Log was a wedding gift to my parents. It was one of the many gifts which
traveled with them on the honeymoon trip to Lookout Mountain on the way to their
new home in Atlanta, GA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know they
moved back to Chicago sometime in 1942 since I was born in October of that
year. </span></div>
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The Guest Log is about eight and a half inches wide and eleven inches
high. Its covers are made of wood and there are two small copper hinges on the
front. The binding is a strip of leather laced through four holes in the
covers. The pages have become brittle with age and some have cracked. It was first used by my parents in February of 1943. The original entries are:</div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Name<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Address<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Date<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">A H
Hansen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oak
Park, ILL<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>2/23/’43<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remarks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thanks for a nice dinner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Henrietta
Hansen<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remarks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Spent a pleasant evening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Dorothy
H Murray<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oak Park, ILL<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2/23/43<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remarks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Will remember this evening a long time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Robert
J Murray<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oak Park, ILL <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Remarks
The first visit of many more to come </div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">(</span><span style="line-height: 107%;">I hope)<o:p></o:p></span>my dad’s parents, sister, and brother-in-law)</div>
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Jayne
Hansen </div>
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</span>This is one of the best evenings I’ve ever spent – no fooling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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J Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Remarks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fine evening with one regret, we missed dinner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">(dad’s
first cousin and his wife)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Dick
Purtell<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oak Park,
ILL<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>3/13/43<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>I like to be with you both for old time’s sake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">(an
olf friend and beau of mom’s sister Kathleen)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Pauline
Ryan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>The roast beef was perfect tonight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Peggy
Ryan<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4319 Monroe
St.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4/2/43<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>I enjoy each Sunday Morning with y’all<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">(mom’s
sister and niece)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Popsy
Connery<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4140 Washington
Bl<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4/14/43<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>I enjoyed the lunch and I had a very pleasant afternoon. I <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Love
Betty and Don’s apt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Mama
Connery<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>The lunch was very good and enjoyed being here and seeing you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">(mom’s
parents)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Grant
B Munger<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cedar Rapids,
Ia<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aug 22,
1943<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>Had one glorious time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Mabel
E Munger<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cedar Rapids, Ia<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remarks<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Enjoyed every minute.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Dorothy
Munger<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>USNAS Glenview, IL<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Aug 22, 1943<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span>It seems like old times being with Donald, Betty, Mr and Mrs Hansen,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">It’s
been a treat seeing your beautiful apartment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">(their
daughter Grace was a college friend of dad’s sister)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">photo - Donna Hansen Peterson 2020</td></tr>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">The
entries of my parents friends and family <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ended in August of 1943.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">After
it came into my possession, my husband and I used it on several occasions (when
we remembered to!) and it has since been “handed down” to my son.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-32452556341443560812020-05-12T14:24:00.001-05:002020-05-12T14:24:37.486-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 18 "Where there's a Will..."<br />
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<span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">There can be other documents as well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My Great-grandfather
Hermann Burbach died 12 April 1896 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His probate packet No 25610-25638 <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
is 21 pages and describes several land transactions that took place in the
years preceding his death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The cover
page indicates that this is re: Certificate of Survivor ship. This is a new term
to me, so I consulted Google for a definition: “A certificate of survivor-ship
is used to establish the descent of property after someone has died. Laws
regarding certificates of survivorship vary by jurisdiction.”<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Aside from the cover page, the contents of the packet deal with several land
purchases made by Herman Burbach and his wife Eva Burbach, nee Schmitz. In
1892, Hermann and Eva purchased land from Philip Schmitz and Sophia Schmitz, his wife, for
the “sum of one dollar and other valuable considerations.” There were two separate
transactions in February between the Schmitz and Burbachs. In another land
purchase Hermann and Eve purchased property from his brother John Burbach and John’s
wife Stephanie in August of 1895. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">When Hermann
died in April of 1896, Eve became sole owner of all three of the deeds. In
November of 1908, Eva, who had since remarried, sold all three properties to
Mathias and John Becker.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In a hearing
on 30 November 1908, Eva, now Eva Mueller, testified as to her marriage to Hermann,
his death, the land purchases, and her desire to sell the property under discussion
to Mathias and John Becker. The purpose of the hearing was to establish the
clear succession of ownership and Eva’s survivor rights. In a question and
answer session Eva testified that she was seventeen when she married Hermann
Burbach on 8 May 1876 and remained married to him until he died 16 April 1896,
and that he never sold any of the properties after he had purchased them. She
also testified to her re-marriage to Charles Meuller in1898. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The hearing
ends with the sale of the properties by Eva Mueller to Mathias Becker and John
Becker in November 1908 and the sworn statement of the official court reporter.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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County Court (Milwaukee County); Probate Place: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ancestry.com.
Wisconsin, Wills and Probate Records, 1800-1987 [database on-line]. Provo, UT,
USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2015., accessed 11 May 2020;Original data:
Wisconsin County, District and Probate Courts.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> U
S Legal,com, google, accessed 11 May 2020.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-19432283693558150022020-04-20T11:47:00.000-05:002020-04-20T11:47:57.967-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 10 “Strong Woman”<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was
fortunate to grow up surrounded by strong women! On both my maternal and
paternal sides, there were strong women to use as role models, but today I will
write about the strongest woman in my life, my mother.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Elizabeth
Mary Connery was the tenth and final child born to Michael Connery and Alice
Fleming. Betty was born on 26 September 1917 in Chicago, Illinois. The United States had entered World War I just
six months earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">With eight
years separating her from her next sibling, Betty was almost considered an only
child. Indeed, two of her older sisters had already graduated from high school
and become religious sisters before Betty’s birth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Living in a
household of older children and adults, often Betty was either overlooked or
“forgotten”. She once told me about the time there was a small kitchen fire in
the house. The house was evacuated, but Betty, napping in a small room adjacent
to the kitchen, was forgotten! Fortunately, the fire was quickly extinguished and Betty
was uninjured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Betty
attended grade school at the local parish, St Mel, where she was baptized. At
about twelve years old, Betty was sent to boarding school, following the tradition
established by her five older sisters. Betty loved the school and her
classmates, many of whom became life-long friends. She was really happy when
one of her sisters, who was a nun, was assigned to teach at the school. At some
point in her school life Betty caught diphtheria, causing the school to be
closed and her father to have a doctor flown from Chicago to treat her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After Betty
graduated from Mount St Mary Academy with the class of 1935, she enrolled in
Mundelein College, which had opened in Chicago just five years earlier. After
one year there, Betty left to study art at the Art Institute of Chicago with
the hope of becoming a fashion designer. As she told me later, “Once I realized
that a design had to look good on everyone whether they were a size six or
twenty, I decided it wasn’t for me,”
Eventually Betty left the Art Institute to work for the Chicago
Metropolitan Sanitary District, where she would remain until her marriage to
Donald George Hansen in 1940. They were married in the same church Betty had
gone to for her entire life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The couple
lived in various apartments for several years until 1947 when they bought a
large Victorian house in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As her
family eventually grew to include nine children, Betty was often asked how she
managed such a large brood. Her reply, “After three it makes no difference.”
Betty was a good manager and assigned chores to the children as they were able
to accomplish them. Betty didn’t drive so she walked to the grocery store in
the late afternoon so her shopping was completed in time for Don to pick her
and the groceries up on his way home from work. In 1952 Betty gave birth to her
seventh child and developed rheumatic Fever. When she was finally released from
the hospital, she went to the home of a dear friend who was a professional
nurse, Betty did not return to her home in Elmhurst until April of 1953.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Don died
suddenly and unexpectedly in December 1959, at the age of 50. Suddenly Betty,
42, was a widow with 9 children under 18 to raise.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Fortunately, her family was ready to offer
help, both financially and emotionally. What would the future hold for all of
them? Betty hadn’t worked since her marriage and now needed a way to support
her children and herself. When Betty contacted Social Security, she found out
that only three or her nine children would be covered Each time one of the
children turned eight-teen she needed to report it to the benefits office even
though it would not affect her allotment until the seventh child became
eight-teen. Betty and Don had always paid for everything in cash and so had
never established credit. Now it was impossible for her to obtain credit with
no visible source of </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">income.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Since her
youngest child was only two and a half, Betty decided to enroll in night
classes at Elmhurst College, which was only three blocks away, with the plan of
becoming a teacher. It took a lot of determination, but Betty worked hard and
through a mixture of night, correspondence, and eventually day classes, Betty
graduated from Elmhurst College the same year her daughter Suzanne graduated from
college. They were both teachers and
rewarded themselves with a joint trip to Europe that summer!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">By the time
she graduated, Betty had begun driving and so she was able to accept a teaching
position in another town. Betty taught fifth grade at Stella Mae Schwartz
school for six years until health issues triggered by her rheumatic fever bouts
caused doctors to recommend that she move to the South where the climate was
milder. She had also had heart surgery to replace a faulty heart valve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On the
fourteenth birthday of her youngest child, Betty loaded her car and, with the
three youngest children, moved to Florida. Betty had chosen a three bedroom
condo in Pompano Beach because it was close to Ft Lauderdale where her two
brothers and her sister Kathleen lived. Betty took a teaching position in the
Pompano Beach schools and became active in St Coleman Catholic church, teaching
in the religious education program. One of the highlights of the week for Betty
was Friday night dinners with her brother Tom and his wife Ruth along with her
sister Kathleen. Over time all her older children and their families were able
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testing the doctors determined that she had multiple meyloma. The disease had
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children who became a credit to both of their parents and in turn passed their
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<span style="font-size: small;">Several years ago I learned how to set Google Alerts when I attended a Google lecture by Lisa Louise Cooke. So I came home and set one for Ballylanders, Limerick, Ireland. That is the little village that was the home of my maternal grandmother. From time to time I would get an alert for Ballylanders in my G-mailbox. They were usually about football and occasionally about local deaths. Today was a payday! I was notified of this article which was posted by Irish Central. It was written by Pauline Murphy and features my grandmother's nephew. Pauline has added to what I already knew about John T Browne and I will be getting in touch with her. Thanks Lisa Louise Cooke!!</span></h1>
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John Thomas Browne, better known as John T, was born 175 years ago in Ballylanders on the 23rd of March 1845. By 1851 famine had ruined the land and the six-year-old John T Browne went with his parents and four siblings on a coffin ship across the Atlantic Ocean. Tragically one of the Browne children, a baby girl, died on the voyage and was buried at</div>
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Shortly after arriving at New Orleans the patriarch of the Browne family took ill and died.</div>
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Life was extremely tough for the Browne family. Young John T's widowed mother was forced to place her children in an orphanage in New Orleans in order to go out and find work for herself. Within months she took her children out of the orphanage and went to Houston Texas where her brother emigrated to years previously.</div>
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A priest called Fr John Gunnard arranged for John T Browne and other immigrant youngsters to go to Washington County where he worked at Spann Plantation but also received an education there.</div>
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From there Browne got his first job in a brickyard in Madison County before going back to Houston where he worked as a messenger for the Houston and Texas Central Railroad.</div>
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When the <a href="https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/lincoln-irish-untold-story-niall-odowd" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;">American Civil War</a> broke out in 1861 Browne joined the Confederate Army where he served with the Second Texas Infantry and was wounded during battle. He was then sent back to Houston where he served as foreman for the railroad.</div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Read more: </strong><a href="https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-confederate-army-civil-war" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;">40,000 Irish fought for the Confederate Army in the US Civil War</a> After the war, Browne went into the grocery trade and married Mary Jane Bergin, a daughter of Irish immigrants, and together they would have six boys and six girls. They were the first couple to exchange vows in the new Catholic Church of the Annunciation in Houston.In 1872 he went into business with Charles Bollfrass, opening Browne & Bollfrass grocery store in Houston. In 1887 Browne entered the world of politics when he joined the Democrat Party and represented Houston's Fifth Ward on the City Council. In 1892 he ran for and won the position of Mayor of Houston in a landslide victory. The Limerick man would serve as Mayor for four years before retiring in 1909. e would become a much-respected mayor of Houston. In his first term as mayor, he tackled the city's budget deficits and set about improving street paving and sewage. He also set up a fully paid Houston Fire Department. He would go on to serve four terms in the Texas House of Representatives, retiring from public service in 1909. Browne was affectionately known in Houston as The Fighting Irishman and became one of the oldest surviving Confederate veterans of the Civil War in Texas, overseeing commemorations and memorial events. For a man who was born during the Irish Famine and survived the treacherous journey on a coffin ship, along with the tough start in New Orleans and served in the American Civil War, the Ballylanders native lived to the ripe old age of 96. John T Browne died on the 19th of August 1941 and was buried in Glenwood cemetery Houston.</div>
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Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-56791804037590315152020-02-20T17:01:00.000-06:002020-02-20T17:01:44.948-06:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - my Favorite Genealogy Discovery<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I have made
many amazing discoveries while doing genealogy and exploring the lives of my
ancestors. One of the most amazing was the discovery of a shared birthplace
between my granddaughter and her fourth great-grandmother a mere one hundred
and sixty-seven years apart!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 1997, my
daughter and son-in-law moved to a small town outside of Frankfurt, Germany.
The town’s name was Bad Kreuznach. They had decided to live in a German town
rather than living on the military base. My husband and I were lucky enough to
be able to visit them often during the six years they lived overseas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On March 18,
1999 my granddaughter was born in the German hospital in Bad Kreuznach. During
our visits we tried to learn about the history of the little town. One of the
things we loved about the town was the Fußgänger zone, which was a pedestrian
only shopping area. Another was the bridge over the river with the little
houses at either end. A favorite pastime was to stand on the bridge and feed
bread to the ducks in the river.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We enjoyed
our visits to Germany and one time even rented a van to explore the known areas
of my German ancestry. We traveled to Oberselters and Villmar in the Hessen
Nassau area to see the churches where the Burbachs worshiped and the cemeteries
where they were buried.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eventually
we returned to the United States and I returned to exploring my genealogy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I knew my
grandmother Henrietta Burbach, born 1888 in Milwaukee, and her father’s
ancestors but hadn’t explored her mother Eva Schmitz’s background. I found that
Eva, born 1858 in Milwaukee, was the daughter of Philip Schmitz and Elisabeth
Kronenberger. While I have not yet discovered the birthplace in Prussia for
Philip Schmitz, I have found out that Elisabeth Kronenberger was born to Heinrich
Kronenberger and Anna Margaretha Mary Bott on the 29<sup>th</sup> of September
1832, in Oberstreit, Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany! How can this not
be a favorite discovery? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Kronenbergers left Germany sometime between 1842,
when their youngest child, Margaretha was born. The first appearance of Elisabeth
Kronenberger in United States records is in the 1860 Milwaukee census with her
husband Philip Schmitz and children Eva and Philip.<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/0a751ac1619b511e/Documents/favorite%20discovery.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1860; Census Place: Milwaukee Ward 9, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; ,ancestry.com, <a href="https://ancestry.com/">https://ancestry.com</a>, accessed 20 Feb 2020;
NARA, Roll: M653_1423; Page: 722; Image: 328; Family History Library Film:
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s been
ten years! I never thought I would keep it going this long. On a lark and in
response to a challenge by Thomas MacEntee, I created a blog on February
10,2010 and joined the Genealogy Winter Games hosted by Thomas. Medals were
awarded based on genealogy tasks accomplished. Here is a listing of the goals
and how I did! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sunday,
February 28, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Winter
Genealogy Games are over!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Winter Genealogy Games have now ended and I have been reflecting on how much I
have achieved.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">To
even enter the games, I needed to create this blog. Next, I created a flag to
represent my heritage. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">1 Go
Back and cite your sources - I have been citing sources and earned a Bronze
Medal.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Back-up Your Data -I have completed task C making a new DVD back-up of all my
digital media. I also have MOZY back-up my data daily and store it on their
servers. That qualifies for a gold.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Organize Your Research - I have individual files for each family line I am researching,
and I also have digital folders for each family. A silver!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Expand your Knowledge - I learned how to create a blog and I played around with
googlemaps. I also created a WORDL using the names of the families I am
researching. Another gold!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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Write, Write, Write! - I wrote a summary of my blog and listed the names I am
researching. I also am participating in the 52 Weeks to Better Genealogy
Challenge. One more gold!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">6
Reach Out - I index regularly for both ancestry.com and familysearch.org. I
check message boards to see it I can help with a request, and I have begun
following several different genealogy blogs. Gold again.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Summary:
1 Bronze, 1 Silver, and 4 Gold not bad for a newbie!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This list of
goals has served me well over the years and with a few changes and additions, I
have kept pretty much the same style.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the past
ten years I have written 445 blog posts, including this one. I have written
about the people and places in the background of my grandchildren’s lives. I
have read church records in German, Norwegian, Hungarian, and Latin. Usually it
was a mix of Latin and another language. Using my blog as cousin bait, I have
connected with “cousins” in Germany, Norway, and Ireland who still live close
to the ancestral homes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am still
trying to write weekly as part Amy Johnson Crow’s “ 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks”
campaign to encourage writing for family history. DNA often creeps into my
writing as I look for more connections to far-flung family relatives and I
haven’t even started on matches from Australia and New Zealand. I will be
writing for a while yet! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-89363607310371717702020-02-03T17:32:00.000-06:002020-02-03T17:32:31.423-06:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 3 Longest<br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">In preparing
for this I needed to use google to determine the distance traveled by my
ancestors from their home to their destination in the United States. I checked
the distance for my three immigrant ancestors to the cities where they settled.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Villmar, Hesse-Nassau to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin is 6840 km<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Bergen, Norway to Chicago, Illinois
is 6206 km<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Limerick, Ireland to Chicago,
Illinois is 5768 km<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Clearly the
distance traveled by my German Great-great-grandfather and his family is the longest.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Around 1845,
Georg Burbach left his birth village of Oberselters<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a> in Hesse-Nassau and traveled to the village of Villmar about 12.4 km to 16.3 km
away. His parents were both deceased and as a second son, he would inherit no
land. The journey probably took two to three hours on foot depending on the
route he took.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Georg found
work as a laborer on a grain farm and settled into village life. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Perhaps his
attendance at the Church of Saints Peter and Paul led to meeting Catherina
Caspari whom he married in the church on 22 April 1849.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title="">[2]</a></span></span><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn2" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">The young
couple had their first child, a son Adam, born 5 Sep 1849,<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Adam was followed by Hermann in 1852<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and Johan in 1854<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
Sadly Adam died in Dec of 1854<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and is buried in the cemetery of Saints Peter and Paul Church.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Shortly
after the death of Adam, Georg and Catherina received news from their relatives
in Wisconsin about the opportunities in the United States. The young couple
decided they would leave Hesse-Nassau and seek their fortune in the United
States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">On 18 June
1856<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Georg and Catherina, along with their sons Hermann and Johan (John) arrived in
New York and began the journey to Milwaukee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">After
arriving in Milwaukee, Georg worked as a laborer to support his family,
gradually improving his employment by advancing to cattle drover (herder) by
1863<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and cattle broker by 1870<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
In 1875 he had advanced to Cattle Broker and in 1877 he was a butcher in a shop
owned by his sons Hermann and John.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Georg and
Catherina had six other children after their arrival in Milwaukee but only the
last child Eva, born in March of 1880 is known to have survived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Georg died
20 July 1897<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
in Milwaukee and is buried in Calvary Cemetery there. His wife Catherina spent
the remainder of her live living with their son John and his wife and family.
Catherina died 17 September 1913<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 107%;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and is buried next to Georg in Calvary Cemetery.<span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kirchenbuchduplikat 1818 - 1874, Dupilcate
Church Book Baptisms 1820-1840: 7 Aug 1825 George son of Huburtus Burbach and
Catheruine Schaaf, St Anthony Catholic Church, Oberselters, Hessen-Nassau,
Germany.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Villmar
Catholic Church (Villmar, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia), "Kirchenbuch 1632
-1884," (Church Book 1632-1884), page 45, Marriage of eorg Burbach and
Catherine Caspari 29 APR 1848; 1632-1884, Diocese of Limburg, Limburg,
Hessen-Nassau, Germany. LDS film 1272248.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Villmar
Catholic Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Villmar),
Kirchenbuch 1632 - 1884, 1272247, 5 Sep 1849, Birth and death of Adam Burbach;
FHL microfilm 1272247.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Villmar
Catholic Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Villmar),
Kirchenbuch 1632 - 1884, 1632-1884, 13 Mar 1852, Baptism of Hermann Burbach;
FHL microfilm 1272247.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Villmar
Catholic Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Villmar),
Kirchenbuch 1632 - 1884, 16 Apr 1854, Birth and Baptism of Johan Burbach; FHL
microfilm 1272247.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Villmar Catholic Church, The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints (Villmar), Kirchenbuch 1632 - 1884, 5 Sep 1849,
Birth and death of Adam Burbach; FHL microfilm 1272247<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Ancestry.com,
New York, Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island),
1820-1957 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010), Year: 1856;
Arrival: New York, New York; Microfilm Serial: M237, 1820-1897; Microfilm Roll:
Roll 164; Line: 21; List Number: 676.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Milwaukee
City Directory (Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin:n.p.n.d.), 1863 p 38,
occupation of George Burbach; digital image, ancestry,com (https://www.fold3.com/image/255348646
: online 11 March 1863).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> 1870
US Census, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, population schedule, Ward 9 Milwaukee,
Page 379B, 1749, Georg Burbach; digital images, Ancestry.com
(http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=1870usfedcen&gss=angs-d&new=1&rank=1&gsfn=Herman&gsfn_x=0&gsln=Burbach&gsln_x=0&msbdy=1852&msbpn__ftp=Germany&msbpn=3253&msbpn_PInfo=3-%7c0%7c1652381%7c0%7c3253%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c0%7c&msrpn__ftp=Milwaukee%2c+Milwaukee%2c+Wisconsin%2c+USA&msrpn=54011&msrpn_PInfo=8-%7c0%7c1652393%7c0%7c2%7c3247%7c52%7c0%7c2025%7c54011%7c0%7c&MSAV=1&uidh=dk3&pcat=35&fh=8&h=14921654&recoff=&ml_rpos=9
: accessed 7 March 2016); Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images
reproduced by FamilySearch..<o:p></o:p></div>
</div>
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<div class="MsoFootnoteText">
<a href="https://d.docs.live.net/c67f44ae307d44ca/week%203%20Longest.docx#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Wisconsin
Death Records 1867-1907 Wisconsin State Historical Society, FamilySearch.org,
database (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLCC-XS8 : online 11 March
2016), p 465 death and occupation of George Burbach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 15 September 1913, pg 5 col 6. death and burial of
Katharine Burbach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-19854276598345194242020-01-25T13:31:00.000-06:002020-01-25T13:31:03.862-06:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 2 Favorite Photo<br />
I am blessed to have access to many family photos and have many favorites. This is one of them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo in my possession<br />received from Dominican Sisters Archives,<br />Adrian, Michigan</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The woman
standing on the bridge is my grandmother Alice Fleming Connery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The bridge
is in Adrian, Michigan. Adrian is where Alice would send her daughters for
their education. As early as 1900, her oldest daughter, Mary Elizabeth, age 6,
would appear to be living there in the 1900 census.<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Mary was attending St Joseph Academy, where her Uncle Michael Fleming was the
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years, Alice made many trips to Adrian as five of her daughters attended the
academy and later two of her daughters joined the Sisters of St Dominic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What was Alice thinking as she stood on that bridge? Was she
wondering what the future held for her family? Was she thinking about her aging
parents left in Ireland? Wishing they could know her children?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I do wonder what she was thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Enumeration District: 0039; FHL microfilm: 1240725; Ancestry.com. 1900 United
States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com
Operations Inc, 2004; Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the
Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National
Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-29146342201363610922020-01-01T13:40:00.000-06:002020-01-01T13:40:58.676-06:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 1 Fresh Start <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yesterday I reviewed my success or failure of my 2019
Genealogy Goals. Since I wasn't very successful it's time for a Fresh Start. The new year brings a chance for just such a start so today I am stating my goals for 2020.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will remain in the 52 Ancestors writing challenge and will
probably be more successful if I set aside a specific day each week to write.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will continue to pursue my genealogy education using
virtual classes, although this month I will be at SLIG (Salt Lake Institute for
Genealogy) for a class in the Introduction to Genetic Genealogy. Webinars will
play an important role in this as will a study group I have enrolled in “National
Genealogy Society Quarterly – Mastering Genealogy Proof (NGSQ-MGP). As part of
this group I will be reading selected articles from the NGSQ and analyzing them
in a monthly group meeting.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will continue working on the “Do-Over” concentrating on
one line per month. Re-vamping my blog site is another plan for this year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the topic of organization, I will work on both my drop
box and download files to rename and place files where they belong. I have way
too many things just dumped in those locations. Perhaps 2 hours per week on
each area will show a marked improvement in both files.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I will keep volunteering weekly at both the local library
genealogy room and the local Family History Center in addition to continuing to
maintaining the website for our local genealogy group and planning the programs
for their meetings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I think I have mapped out my goals for the coming year so I
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<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-806084772775719842019-12-31T17:33:00.000-06:002019-12-31T17:33:38.317-06:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 51 2019 Review of Genealogy Goals<br />
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One of my goals for 2019 was to finally finish collecting
the records needed to finish my daughter’s application to the Daughters of the
American Revolution. I did it! My daughter will be sworn in as a member in
January, 2020. Her application will act as a springboard for my son’s application
to the Son’s of the Revolution. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I signed up to participate in the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks again
as a way to inspire me to continue my blogging. I was less successful this year,
only writing half as often as I did in 2018. I hope to do better in 2020.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In 2019, I discovered “Virtual Education” and have taken several
classes from the comfort of home. One of the classes I took, through the Utah
Genealogy Associations, was “Intermediate Foundations” and was very intensive.
This has led me to other classes both virtual and in person.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am a member of Gina Philibert- Ortega’s book club and have
managed to read all of the books for the past year.<o:p></o:p></div>
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challenges for 2020. Tomorrow I will write about my goals for 2020.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-14453011009649297792019-09-15T17:22:00.000-05:002019-09-15T17:22:16.798-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 37 Mistake<br />
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All of us make mistakes on a regular basis. I made a whopper
when I first began doing genealogy. It was based on an assumption and proved
that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grandfather Adolph H Hansen</td></tr>
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<br />I was researching my father’s Norwegian line and knew about
the patronymic naming system so I made the assumption that the father of my
great-grandfather Adolf Hansen was Hans [<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>] and entered it as such in my family tree. Several years later as I
became a more experienced genealogist and learned to evaluate records more
critically, I discovered that my ancestors no longer used the patronymic system
when my great-grandfather was born in Oslo in 1852. The actual name of his father
was Martin Hansen!<o:p></o:p></div>
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By now others had copied my tree with Hans as the father and
it was that way on ancestry.com, familysearch.org and wikitree among others. How
could I fix it? It was my original error and now it had multiplied over and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Great-grandfather Adolf Hansen b 1852<br />Christened Johannes Adolf Waldemer Hansen<br />son of Martin Hansen b 1827<br /></td></tr>
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After hearing Cyndi Ingle's talk on “Copy and Paste
Genealogy”, I decided to implement one of the suggested solutions! I wrote and
published a blog post detailing the records that led to the correct answer to
Adolf’s correct parentage.<br />
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After publishing the blog post, I have attached a link to it
in my tree at ancestry.com and just hope for the best! Here is the link. http://hangingwithdonna.blogspot.com/search?q=Martin+Hansen<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-71890117806051179592019-09-09T16:56:00.000-05:002019-09-09T16:56:08.022-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 36 School Days<br />
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Labor Day weekend often marks the “Back to School” season
with sales on pens, pencils, tablets, markers and other supplies. Like other
genealogists, I often take advantage of those sales to load up on supplies.
Yesterday I picked up a white board at the dollar store to practice and
experiment with mind mapping. But “Back to School” means more than stocking up
on supplies!<o:p></o:p></div>
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In this case I am the one going back to school! I have
discovered the wonderful world of “Virtual Education”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For many years I have tried to educate myself
in the best practices in genealogy research by attending national conferences
like the Southern California Genealogy Society’s annual Jamboree, Roots Tech,
the Federation of Genealogical Society’s annual conference and on various
genealogy cruises. They are all wonderful ways to learn and network with other
genealogists. Cruising is really fun because you are also traveling and seeing
other parts of the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As travel becomes more difficult and expensive, I have begun
to find alternate means of education and communication. Last winter I
discovered the website Future Learn. There I took a beginning genealogy class
through Scotland's University of Strathclyde for free from the comfort of my home. It
was an interactive class and lasted six weeks giving a thorough exposure to beginning genealogy. I had previously taken a class with Future Learn on Irish
History around the time of the “troubles” (1914-1925). Then I wanted to
understand what was happening in Ireland at that time as my grandparents were
frequently returning to their homeland.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In the spring, I took a virtual class in “Intermediate
Research” through the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. It was a ten-week
college level class with two 75 minute lectures every week and about ten hours
of homework. It included intense emphasis on creating source citations, and
exposure to research in many areas including law research.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Recently I took a class in Genetic Genealogy in Practice to
prepare me for the Genetic Genealogy class I will take at Salt Lake City when I
travel there for a week in January 2020. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-56346126715157534722019-08-11T15:53:00.000-05:002019-08-11T15:53:45.247-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks -Week 32 “Sister”<br />
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grandmother Henrietta Hansen, nee Burbach, was one of six children but only had
one sister, Katherine or Katie, as she was commonly called.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Katherine
Burbach was born on 20 July 1877<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She was the oldest daughter of Hermann and Eva (nee
Schmitz) Burbach. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Katie’s
father, along with his brother John, owned a butcher shop in Milwaukee. Hermann
and John (Johan) had immigrated to Milwaukee with their parents in 1856 from
the village of Villmar, Hessen, Duchy of Nassau. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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St Josephat Catholic Church and most likely a German school for her education since
both of her parents were German.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Katie’s suffered
several tragedies in her short life. Her brother John sadly drowned on the day
of his Confirmation when she was 15 years old and her father died just four
years after that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the last year of
her life her grandfather Georg also died.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">After her
father’s death Katie’s mother moved the family to 703 Grand Avenue, about three
miles from the butcher shop now run by John Burbach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was at
the Grand Avenue address that Katie died on 4 Dec 1897<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
just over twenty years old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Kathe
Burbach - Friends and acquaintances, the sad news that our well-beloved
daughter, sister, and sister-in-law, Kathe Burbach on Saturday morning at
10:30, after a long illness, at the age of 20 years, 8 months, and 16 days is
resting in peace.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
burial will take place on Tuesday, the 7th of December at 9:30 in the morning,
from the mourning house, No 703 Grand Avenue, from there to St Joseph's Church,
corner of 11th and Cherry St.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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condolences are requested for the mourning bereaved: Widower Hermann Burbach
(*); Georg, Peter, Charles H, Henrietta, siblings; Rosa Burbach, sister-in-law;
Philipp and Sophie Schmitz, grandparents.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title="">[iii]</a></span></b></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn3" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Death Records 1867-1907 Wisconsin State Historical Society, FamilySearch.org,
database (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XLCC-XS8 : online index 11
March 2016), Katie Burbach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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05 Dec 1897<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pg 5 col 7<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-52215969038939636512019-08-04T17:12:00.000-05:002019-08-04T17:12:20.454-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 31 “Brother”<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The theme
for this week is brother and even though I have four brothers, I will talk
about one of my mother’s brothers. She had three brothers, but only knew two of
them. In his short life, Leo is only named in five records.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Leo, her
oldest brother, was born on Sunday April 4, 1897.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
He was baptized on 18 April 1897 at St Columbkille Catholic Church in Chicago,
Illinois. His sponsors were John Connery, his father’s brother and Mary Hogan,
his mother’s niece.<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title="">[ii]</a></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn2" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Columbkille Church, Chicago, IL<br />photo posted at ancestry.com by PatrickWSmith</td></tr>
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appearance in the 1900 census is Leo’s only federal record and shows three-
year old Leo at home with his sisters Mary, Katherine, and Alice.</span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn3" title="">[iii]</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On 4 March
1905 Leo died of appendicitis complicated by septic anemia.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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buried on 8 Mar 1905 in Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It has been
said that there is a stained glass window in his memory installed at St Mel
Church but I have never seen it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Illinois, Chicago Catholic Church Records
1833-1925, "FamilySearch.org," database with images, familysearch
(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVMN-RNYY : online 9 December 2016),
birth and baptism of Leo Michael Connery.<o:p></o:p></div>
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U S Census, , pop sch, 28th Ward, enumeration district (ED) 851, page 12, 213,
Leo M Connery; digital images, ancestry.com (http://search.ancestry.com:
accessed 23 November 2015); United States of America. Bureau of the Census.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Archdiocese of Chicago, Cemetery Records, 1864-1989, Register of Deaths, p161;
Family Search. <a href="https://familysearch.org/">https://familysearch.org</a>,
FHL film 4372654, database with images, accessed 4 Aug 2019.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-39411816993744859492019-07-21T13:40:00.000-05:002019-07-21T13:40:05.571-05:0052 Ancestors – Week 29 Challenge <br />
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am writing about my personal experience when this country met the challenge of
putting a man on the moon. It was fifty years ago yesterday! Although it’s not
about an ancestor, I am an ancestor to my descendants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and I got up early that morning, we had things to do and places to go. Friends
had invited us to attend the Air Show in Sandwich, Illinois that afternoon and
we needed to get our children ready to spend the afternoon with a babysitter. Once
everyone was ready, we said goodbye to the kids and headed off to Sandwich to
meet our friends Bob and Judy at their brother-in-law’s house in Sandwich. He
was the editor of the local paper and got us free tickets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about noon and met our friends. It was common at that time and place to offer
guests a “Grand Tour” of the house. We saw a beautiful Victorian house that was
well updated and furnished. The special surprise was in the kitchen where we
first witnessed the miracle of the microwave over. Imagine it could heat a hot
dog in less than a minute and warm the hot fudge without melting the ice cream!
That was only the first amazing experience of the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hazy Summer Sunday and the Air Show was scheduled to begin I believe at 1 PM.
In addition to airplanes doing stunts and seeing sky divers perform, the
featured attraction was Bob Hope! We got there early so we could have a front
row (or close to that) seat. We had a huge blue and white blanket that we spread
out on the ground and settled down to wait for Bob Hope to appear. We were also
to see Ginny Tiu and her sisters do their singing act. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and waited in the Summer heat. Ginny Tiu and her sisters performed for us and
we waited some more. Finally, the audience heard the announcement that Bob Hope
would not appear until the astronauts had safely landed on the moon. The audience
was disappointed, but nobody left. I think it was about four o’clock when Bob
Hope appeared and was greeted with loud cheers because we knew that the astronauts
were safe, and we could all enjoy the show.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a
great show!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A wonderful ending to a great
day. But it wasn’t really the end of the day, since when we got home again we
stayed up late to take pictures of the walk on the moon off out television
screen!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B0JiVJIjZTL/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet">Men on the moon! 20 July 1969</a> photo taken by Dave Peterson 20 July 1969 from television screen.</span></div>
<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-24476952353617901712019-07-02T17:26:00.000-05:002019-07-02T17:26:54.816-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 26 “Legend”<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It has long
been a legend in the Connery family of Chicago that our patriarch Michael,
commonly known as M J once lead the St Patrick’s Day Parade down State Street
on a white horse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDCkmTMVRmnqFXeIioSxQQ6LuvKwvcQ_hoAXkDnvJWJ_PyS-vsnVBNeD8rdGk9Ge4ir9yr2SJSecAPqpcKBavLB18VoMuCRxJFNycBibH0c1Hul-maNITpcFbY2VaQn93sO04WXdFyV8c/s1600/M+J+Connery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="565" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDCkmTMVRmnqFXeIioSxQQ6LuvKwvcQ_hoAXkDnvJWJ_PyS-vsnVBNeD8rdGk9Ge4ir9yr2SJSecAPqpcKBavLB18VoMuCRxJFNycBibH0c1Hul-maNITpcFbY2VaQn93sO04WXdFyV8c/s320/M+J+Connery.jpg" width="248" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">M J Connery circa 1920?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In an effort
to confirm this legend, I did some research on both the history of the parade
and my grandfather M J.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">What is now
the parade in downtown Chicago began on in the Southtown area of Chicago as
early as 1843 with seven hundred seventy five marchers who first marched to St
Mary’s church for Mass and then marched on to the Saloon Building at Clark and
Randolph. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
According to the article the Saloon Building became the first City Hall in
Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The parade
was held in Southtown from it’s beginning in 1843 until 1901 with the exception
of 1897 when it was cancelled due to the increase in both poverty and
homelessness because of the severe weather.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
After 1901 there were no more parades until they were reinstated in 1956 by
Mayor Richard J Daly.<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In 1898
Grand Marshall Bob Monahan led the parade on a prancing horse.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Searching
the Chicago newspapers for M J Connery in the years between 1890 and 1910, the
time he lived in Southtown, shows that M J was active in the community and ran
for election as alderman in the 13<sup>th</sup> ward <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn4" name="_ednref4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>1893,
1894<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn5" name="_ednref5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and 1898<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_edn6" name="_ednref6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>.
At this time, it is not known if M J was ever elected but being on the ballot
three times, shows a strong commitment to his community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">About 1910 M
J and his family moved to the West Town neighborhood of Chicago and his allegiance
changed to the Garfield Park neighborhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My
conclusion is that M J never did ride that white horse down State Street. I
think the references to Bob Monahan on his horse were mixed into the stories of
life in Southtown when my aunts and uncles were children. Unfortunately, it
would seem that the legend is really a myth, however I am open to additional
proof.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Lindberg,
Richard<i>, How Chicago Got It’s Green Back</i>, Chicago Magazine a 22<sup>nd</sup>
Century Media Publication, 15 June 2016, online image, accessed 2 July 2019.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Ibid.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref3" name="_edn3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Ibid.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref4" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn4;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Chicago Eagle, 11 March 1893, page 1, image 1; Chronicling America, <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.gov/">https://chroniclingamerica.gov</a>, imagea
online, accessed 2 July 2019.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref5" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn5;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Chicago Eagle, 0 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>March 1894, page 4,
image 4; Chronicling America, https://chroniclingamerica.gov, imagea online,
accessed 2 July 2019.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ednref6" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn6;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chicago Eagle, 26 Feb 1898, page 4, image 4;
Chronicling America, https://chroniclingamerica.gov, imagea online, accessed 2
July 2019.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-60347340913026549512019-06-23T14:12:00.000-05:002019-06-23T14:12:10.149-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 25 “Earliest”<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">My earliest
direct line ancestor to arrive in the United States was my
great-great-grandfather, Georg Burbach.</span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIMoCANr1sjigEXR1fljd2ok2K7PV9W4JtdUH_By6ueSr3T0R17F5SEDjS5EfHOzpWNN9BcZ7cVWBJkAZ0LCz-kW1cdVSSA-3pO6eGW47ZwfJkwNqJ2efYWTjFy0kKzyLW692VUZpcSVsR/s1600/Oberselters_Antonius.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1600" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIMoCANr1sjigEXR1fljd2ok2K7PV9W4JtdUH_By6ueSr3T0R17F5SEDjS5EfHOzpWNN9BcZ7cVWBJkAZ0LCz-kW1cdVSSA-3pO6eGW47ZwfJkwNqJ2efYWTjFy0kKzyLW692VUZpcSVsR/s400/Oberselters_Antonius.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">St Anthony Church, Oberselters, Hessen Nassau, Germany<br />google images</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Georg was
the third child and first son born to Hubert Burbach and Catherine Schaaf on 3
August 1825 in the village of Oberselters, Hessen Nassau, Germany. He was
baptized in St Anthony Catholic Church on 7 August 1825.</span><span class="MsoFootnoteReference" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn1" title="">[1]</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Shortly
after his father’s death in 1845<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
George left Oberselters, a village his ancestors had lived in since the 1700s.
The village was a farming area and Georg had no land of his own. He traveled to
the neighboring village of Villmar which was about 13 km north of Oberselters.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
Villmar is larger than Oberselters and Georg hoped to find work there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He did find
work in the cereal fields of Villmar where he met and married Catherine Caspari
on 29 April 1848 in Sts Peter and Paul Church.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
The young couple settled in the village and began to raise a family. Their first
child, Adam was born 5 Sep 1849,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
followed by Hermann born 11 Mar 1852<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn6" name="_ftnref6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
and Johan born 15 Apr 1854.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn7" name="_ftnref7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
As the family grew the economy declined due to several years of crop failures.
Times looked bleak for the young family. And then Adam died 6 Dec 1854. After
his burial at Sts Peter and Paul Church<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn8" name="_ftnref8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>,
Georg and Catherine decided to follow others from the area and travel to the
United States. Catherine’s parents were dead as were Georg’s parents, but
Catherine had an aunt and uncle who had traveled to the United States and
settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to farm the land. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Georg Burbach left Villmar<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn9" name="_ftnref9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
with Catherine and their two sons, Hermann and Johan. They were going to join
friends and family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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arriving in Wisconsin in July of 1856, according to naturalization records, the
family settled in the city of Milwaukee rather than looking for land to farm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> The 1860 census shows Georg to be working as a laborer, in 1863 Georg is listed
as a drover.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn10" name="_ftnref10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a></span>
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This was at the beginning of
the Milwaukee meat processing era, during the time of Patrick Cudahy and
Phillip Armor. Perhaps Georg knew and worked for one or the other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Although
there is reason to suspect that Georg and Catherine had other children, none
survived to be recorded in the 1860 or 1870 census returns. There are Burbach
babies buried in Calvary Cemetery but there is no indication of their parents
and there was an unrelated Burbach family living in Milwaukee at the time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As time marched
on, Georg’s sons grew and learned the skills they would need to become
successful butchers. The Burbach Bros Butcher shop was open on Walnut Street by
the time of the 1880<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn11" name="_ftnref11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
census and was employed there as a butcher until his death 20 July 1897.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn12" name="_ftnref12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
He is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftn13" name="_ftnref13" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn13;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[13]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>:
Kirchenbuchduplikat 1818 - 1874, Dupilcate Church Book Baptisms 1820-1840: 7
Aug 1825 George son of Huburtus Burbach and Catheruine Schaaf, St Anthony
Catholic Church.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn2;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Kirchenbuchduplikat
1818 - 1874, Dupilcate Church Book 1818-1874: 9 Aug 1845, St Anthony Catholic
Church.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn3;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Google
maps<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn4;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Villmar Catholic Church, "Kirchenbuch
1632 -1884," page 45.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn5;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>St s
Peter and Paul Church Villmar, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia, Kirchenbuch 1632 - 1884,
1272247, Birth and death of Adam Burbach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref6" name="_ftn6" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn6;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[6]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Sts
Peter and Paul Church Villmar, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia, Kirchenbuch 1632 - 1884,
1632-1884, Baptism of Hermann Burbach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref7" name="_ftn7" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn7;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[7]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Sts
Peter and Paul Church Villmar, Hessen-Nassau, Prussia, Kirchenbuch 1632 - 1884,
Birth and Baptism of Johan Burbach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref8" name="_ftn8" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn8;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[8]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sts Peter and Paul Church Villmar,
Hessen-Nassau, Prussia, Kirchenbuch 1632 - 1884, Birth and death of Adam
Burbach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref9" name="_ftn9" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn9;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[9]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> :
"Die Auswanderung aus dem Herzogtum Nassau 1806-1866," immigration of
Georg Burbach and family page 141.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref10" name="_ftn10" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn10;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[10]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Milwaukee
City Directory, 1863 p 38, occupation of George Burbach<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref11" name="_ftn11" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn11;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[11]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> 1880
US census, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, population, Milwaukee, ED ED 130,
Page 69 B, , Hermann Burbach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4937920689538570600#_ftnref12" name="_ftn12" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn12;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[12]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Wisconsin
Death Records 1867-1907, FamilySearch.org, database p 465 death and occupation
of George Burbach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-31218919122364771872019-06-15T16:40:00.000-05:002019-06-15T16:40:03.618-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 24 “Dear Diary”<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I have never
kept a diary and I don’t believe I have any ancestors who did but I do have a
copy of the desk diary that my mother kept in 1974. Mom was widowed in 1959
with nine children under 18. In 1971 she moved from Elmhurst, Illinois to
Pompano Beach, Florida to be close to her sister Kathleen and brothers Tom and
Jack who had retired to Ft Lauderdale. At the time there were three children
still living with her, Peggy, Alice and Donald. Mom lived in Florida until her
death in 1977 at the age of sixty. Shortly after moving to Florida, mom
developed cancer and by 1974 was no longer able to teach full time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">These are
the entries from her desk calendar for January 1974<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tuesday,
January 1<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Alice’s bday – 19 years old<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We are having dinner at Peg & Mike’s; SMC [her sister
Sister Marie Camilla], A.K., Mary, Al, Don and me. Tris (Mike’s brother) of
course. The apt is very nice they have beautiful bedroom furniture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Saturday,
January 5<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Budget for 2/75<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>4.25 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gas and milk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>100 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gro.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>150 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>135<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>church<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1099<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dollars and cents]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Monday,
January 14<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Rain fell all day today – 4” or so
in vacant fields flooded and many streets <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Didn’t drain off. So it was with Mc ab Rd when I tried to
get to St Coleman’s for CCD. I had a terrible time and was lucky a good angel
pulled me out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tuesday,
January 15<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Not feeling strong I hesitated about H.C.H. [Holy Cross
Hospital] work but am<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>glad I tried it.
It was not too tiring. Dr. George took me off Alkare for 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">more weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wednesday,
January 16<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Alice joined the choir by her own request.
It will be good for her, I think. She is also thinking about Confirmation.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thursday,
January 17<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Don took the car today so I am grounded. Hilda had us (Kay
and I) for waffles. Tomorrow Don buys Mike Wilde’s car a “67 Cutlass for cash.
Pretty good at saving!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Friday,
January 18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Alice took me to Diane’s for lunch after grocery shopping. Sitting
in front of T.V. at 11:00 when T.B.K. S. [my brother Tom, his wife Beate, their
son Kurt, and Beate’s mother Susi]come! Don moves to liv fl [living room floor]
to make room. He admires Tom and enjoys Beate. Alice makes banana bread which
we forget to serve. Tom has no beard Kurt<u> is</u> v. friendly! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Saturday,
January 19<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">M V [my sister Mary Virginia] and I shop at Fields but she
doesn’t like what they have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sunday,
January 20<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Mass at 11:00 – Ir is a good experience to attend a “straight”
Mass with choir. The kids went swimming at Boca bridge. Susi and Mary and I
spent a quiet afternoon. The swimmers were back early.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Monday,
January 21<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">CCD was a staff meeting. We are going to have 3 classes and 2
teachers for each class. Relaxed atmosphere, more free range rap[?]. In the AM
Suzy & I went to the shore for shells We took Kurt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Wednesday,
January 23<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">T&R[my uncle Tom and his wife Ruth] took us T.B.K.S. to lunch
at 2100 then we walked or sat on the beach till I left to do tutoring. The
young ones went out to mini golf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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January 24<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Suzi and I took Kurt to the beach “shelling”. He is so sweet
and trusting – his eyes say so much. At noon we went to HCH to have lunch with
Ingabor and Mary. Susi and Beate enjoyed. At 3:00 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we all drove up to WPB [West Palm Beach] for a
Rst Bf [roast beef] dinner at St Raymond with SMC.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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January 25<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tom and Beate left for Orlando We decided not to go – I am
too tired and it’s quite expensive. So Susi and I went to Creighton’s . She
liked v. much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Saturday,
January 26<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The travelers get back form Orlando about 8:00. Had a grand
time. We took things easy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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January 27<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Went to A.K.[her sister Kathy] for a nice dinner – she really
can cook up a good meal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Monday,
January 28<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tom, Beate, Kurt, Susi Mary left and it was a lonely morning.
Alice tried to cheer me up. We went to Inveraray for lunch with Isabel. The phone
was ringing when we got in – a tutoring job 3<sup>rd</sup> gr Louise. T.G. and
Dorothy Hajjar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Tuesday,
January 29<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Call from the Learning Tree – tutoring. Will look into it. I’m
so thankful to have these jobs pop up. Hospital made me lonely for my sweet
Mary. Peg came in the AM so cheerful – so is Alice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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January 30<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Louise is a very sweet dark-eyed child. She is rather slow in
reading but definitely able. We both have rapport.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the month of January 1974.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Donna Hansen Petersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13010578509636276371noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4937920689538570600.post-48884866944309375802019-05-25T13:25:00.000-05:002019-05-25T13:28:51.351-05:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks – Week 20 Two Cousins in the Civil War (reprinted from 2013)<br />
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My husband's Ferguson ancestors were a family of soldiers. They can be found in every war since the Revolution serving their country. This is one of the stories I have found.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Parson's Battery Position<br />
photo - Wikipedia</td></tr>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">On 12 April 1861, the day of the first battle of the Civil
War,brothers William Fergason and Jeremiah Ferguson were farmers in the small
community of Willow Hill in Jasper County in southern Illinois. </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The crops typical of the area included
buckwheat, Indian corn, oats, wheat, potatoes, and apples.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">There were also a few cows, pigs, and
chickens in addition to horses used for plowing and transportation.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Soon their concerns about the price of seed
or too much or too little rain would turn to worries about the was as each man
watched his oldest son go off to war.</span><br />
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Jeremiah was the first to wave good-bye to his son George W
as he enlisted on 14 Aug 1862 in Granville, IL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was twenty years old and 5 ft 9 3/4 in tall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was assigned as a private to Company E of
the 123 Il<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>US Infantry and mustered into
the unit on 6 Sep 1862.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His unit was
sent to Louisville, Ky then on to join the the 3 brigade of the 10th division
of the Army of Ohio under the command of General Buell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After chasing General Bragg's army into
Kentucky they became involved in the Battle of Perryville.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This battle became known as the bloodiest
battle of the Civil War with casualties in excess of 7,677 from both sides.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the Union side 894 soldiers died.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>George W Ferguson was killed in action on 8
Oct 1862 at Perryville, KY.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had been
less than two months since he had enlisted.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Battle of Perryville<br />
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On a cold winter day William A Ferguson, son of William and
nephew of Jeremiah joined the Union forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>7 Feb 1865 Captain Scott enlisted William for 1 year at Olney,
Illinois.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a Private assigned to
Company B 155 IL US Infantry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William
joined the army with Oliver Allison another 18 year old farmer from Willow
Hill.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They moved to Louisville, KY and
then to their mission to guard the block houses of the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad from Nashville to Duck River.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were mustered out on 4 Sep 1865 at
Murfreesboro, TN by Captain Wilson.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>William returned to Willow Hill to marry and continue farming.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cousins George and William Ferguson shared many things, but
both did not return from war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
shared grandparents, occupations, aunts, uncles, and cousins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They even both had grey eyes.<o:p></o:p></div>
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