Today I feel like Alice in Wonderland, like the part in chapter two when Alice exclaims, "Curiouser and curiouser!" and subsequently grows to be nine feet tall. You know, like one does. I haven't eaten a sponge cake to reach a skeleton key that opens the door to Wonderland, but I am confused; I've been [...]
Sometimes, when researching my genealogy, the little things are infinitely the most important. And that's the case for this recent find: 197 centimorgans of shared DNA across six segments led me unexpectedly, finally, to my great-great-grandmother's family tree. I want to share how I solved this Drag family mystery--my recipe for success--in the hopes that [...]
Luther Baker was a strong man, and it seems as though he was always destined to be; after all, Strong was in his name. Luther Strong Baker was born on March 22, 1840 in Allegany County, New York to Daniel Baker and Abigail Strong, the sixth of fifteen children. He's described in multiple sources as [...]
Two brothers--Wesley and Arthur Cook of Decorah, Iowa--enlisted in the Union Army in the U.S. Civil War on October 25, 1861 at the ages of 21 and 19, respectively. Both Wesley and Arthur were mustered into Company H of the 9th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and were ordered to proceed to Franklin, Missouri with their [...]
I've shared the Marczynski family's story here before: Casimir Marczynski's wife, Mary Fabich, died of typhoid fever in 1907, leaving him a widower with six children. His mother arranged for Mary Witkowski--a young woman from Julianowo, Poland--to travel to Dunkirk that summer, and the couple were wed on August 26, 1907 in St. Hedwig's Church. [...]
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