tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87790312785765067862024-03-14T13:23:17.881-07:00My Genealogical Adventures Welcome to my blog about my family tree and all the rewards and headaches that go along with it.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.comBlogger77125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-3646769180529321062024-03-14T07:30:00.000-07:002024-03-14T09:30:17.498-07:00My not so Dutch great-grandfather part 2<p>So perhaps I'm being a <i>little bit</i> unfair to the Dutch side of my Denhof line, as there is more Dutch than German. For me, it really boils down to growing up believing they were 100% Dutch and then finding out that it's just not true. </p><p>On Nick Denhof's father's side I've shown that his father's Denhof line goes back to Germany. The records I find for his paternal grandfather's mother's family all point to the Netherlands. Switching over to his maternal grandmother (Lammina van Heuvelen), her father's records all point to Großwolde, Leer, Lower Saxony, Germany, using the name Höveling (Robert didn't find available records for that area so it's unconfirmed). Her mother's family also all point to the Netherlands. </p><p>Switching over to his mother's side: I wrote about <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/03/last-post-i-wrote-about-my-great.html" target="_blank">Nick's mother Margaret</a> and wrote a <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/05/dna-tests-solving-more-mysteries.html" target="_blank">follow-up post </a>about the DNA test that proved Margaret's father (as her birth record shows she was born out of wedlock). As you can probably guess, we're going back to Germany with at least one of these families, although today I'm going to write about the Dutch and American records I have for her parents. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr7kRSFUeubOsnuLuwjqF3KRnY3_QD1uOIAMxPMMQo6KDpezSojCmZ-zxW2JSKwbiNE7OPC0JaBD96QPaKOfPOnjwghjMkRRWKggyWIrzSx1HfWlXiuRcAJqCO2cPMnLaMk8HZtGSKAoLqfF40drDg5yUD2PTEBzCk35hXFwKBYjWUtZmKqdz3Nm5NiN2H/s1646/Bernardus%20birth.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="1646" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr7kRSFUeubOsnuLuwjqF3KRnY3_QD1uOIAMxPMMQo6KDpezSojCmZ-zxW2JSKwbiNE7OPC0JaBD96QPaKOfPOnjwghjMkRRWKggyWIrzSx1HfWlXiuRcAJqCO2cPMnLaMk8HZtGSKAoLqfF40drDg5yUD2PTEBzCk35hXFwKBYjWUtZmKqdz3Nm5NiN2H/w307-h255/Bernardus%20birth.png" width="307" /></a></div><br />Her father was born Bernardus Henderikus Kock (Americanized to Bernard Cook), born 2 Nov 1830 at Uithuizen, Netherlands. <div><br /><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: quot;">In the year 1830, the 2nd of November, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, </span><span style="font-family: quot;">appeared for me, Derk Nanninga, Civil Official of Uithuizen, </span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Hendrikus Kock, 40 years old, profession weaver, who reports to me that a child of the male gender is born, here, in the house on number 183, today in the early morning at 3 o'clock from him, declarant, and Gesina Jans Schreuder, his wife. He stated that he wanted to give this child the first name Bernardus.<br />Whose statement has been made, in the presence of Cornelis Jiltes Keiser, 70 years old, without profession, Roelf Sleumer, 37 years old, profession carpenter, both living here, being neighbors and not related to the declarant. After reading aloud, this document was signed by them and me, with the exception of the first witness, who stated that he could not write.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfmem8r-Muze69bNOzHadKWN4nVtE6mMZ_PCqO3Hv36hQlQ8ZX5PlpxPwXsYDhGAB-5kRVherq_fcbFAb1ermkGyIzDLpHVzvc64A7K0SreK-rEXcnM17KqQ3GHMWJ571S_dcnRij5n0pZEX1QnoJXXT9_uA-L6Bhymc63LXIeYN4V2i20PWhDLgbp7UFM/s1708/Johanna%20birth.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1534" data-original-width="1708" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfmem8r-Muze69bNOzHadKWN4nVtE6mMZ_PCqO3Hv36hQlQ8ZX5PlpxPwXsYDhGAB-5kRVherq_fcbFAb1ermkGyIzDLpHVzvc64A7K0SreK-rEXcnM17KqQ3GHMWJ571S_dcnRij5n0pZEX1QnoJXXT9_uA-L6Bhymc63LXIeYN4V2i20PWhDLgbp7UFM/s320/Johanna%20birth.png" width="320" /></a></div>Her mother was born Johanna Kuis 21 Nov 1834 in the neighboring city of <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@53.4227889,6.7221563,12.67z?entry=ttu" target="_blank">Uithuizeermeeden</a>.<div><span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">In the year 1834, the 22nd of November, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, appeared for me, Albert Pieters Bouma, Mayor, Civil Registry Official of the municipality of Uithuistermeeden (nowadays Uithuizermeeden, Province of Groningen), Bernardus Kuis, 43 years old, profession weaver, living in Uithuistermeeden, who has introduced to us, a child of the female gender, born on November 21, 1834, at night at 1 am, from him, declarant and Grietje Jans Graftema, in the house at Number 93, in the village of Uithuizermeeden.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">To which he has stated that he wants to give the first name of Johanna.This statement was made up in the presence of Bene Hindriks Baar, 38 years old, profession day laborer, and Jan Harms Deilen, 34 years old, profession weaver, both living in Uithuizermeeden.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is how this document was drawn up, which after reading aloud, was signed by the declarant, together with the witnesses and us, on the day, month and year as mentioned above.</span></span><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQmtJ1laZ9d9R0vVQa-tyqjWV1aKE9Nm0TuJ0Pl96WghJHFNB-Pxtl3YdpBKyze0BZZdY-vbnYEVQSw-H97QJYN0TMX6Rrlchy2dSHvSniFMX0fxawkNxYvLb4pmlNTf745J4EF5nUrShbS29GGMwYmJPAK_r4994fViL40fPiJ4jbOoyatu41tzTHAg_q/s3921/Marriage.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvvXz2KwMlvf25CmZ6pj7pbkY54uOnyX5_Vk7bDPJqjaNUkxFQpTVsUqI9-YFq5QRzF1IfCurECHeUBeyMdVR03UaV5fhjVEuBkU91n_sexP2LU3vcgp8vgfeiT4iTLP3qUJvCW7pn5Rr-jGIcJxZHw3Ayytcp21rsASMnD6E90bMr0qKOHE6kiJC3Ednp/s1694/Screenshot%202024-03-14%20at%2010.36.00%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1694" data-original-width="1108" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvvXz2KwMlvf25CmZ6pj7pbkY54uOnyX5_Vk7bDPJqjaNUkxFQpTVsUqI9-YFq5QRzF1IfCurECHeUBeyMdVR03UaV5fhjVEuBkU91n_sexP2LU3vcgp8vgfeiT4iTLP3qUJvCW7pn5Rr-jGIcJxZHw3Ayytcp21rsASMnD6E90bMr0qKOHE6kiJC3Ednp/w296-h399/Screenshot%202024-03-14%20at%2010.36.00%20AM.png" width="296" /></a><img border="0" data-original-height="3921" data-original-width="2575" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQmtJ1laZ9d9R0vVQa-tyqjWV1aKE9Nm0TuJ0Pl96WghJHFNB-Pxtl3YdpBKyze0BZZdY-vbnYEVQSw-H97QJYN0TMX6Rrlchy2dSHvSniFMX0fxawkNxYvLb4pmlNTf745J4EF5nUrShbS29GGMwYmJPAK_r4994fViL40fPiJ4jbOoyatu41tzTHAg_q/w264-h403/Marriage.jpg" width="264" /></div></div><br /><div>Bernardus and Johanna married 2 Nov 1859 at Uithuizen, making 2 of their children "legitimate". </div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">On November 2, 1859, appeared for us, Civil Registry in Uithuizen, District of Appingedam, Province of Groningen, in the town hall, to enter into a marriage;</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bernardus Kock, 28 years old, profession day laborer, living in Uithuizen, born in Uithuizen, Municipality Uithuizen, son of the late Hendrikus Kock, deceased in Uithuizen and Gesina Jans Schreuder, profession day laborer, living in Uithuizen, declarant has fulfilled his obligation to the national militia, according to the certificate attached to this.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Johanna Kuis, 24 years old, without profession, living in Uithuizen, born in Uithuistermeeden, municipality Uithuistermeeden, adult-daughter of Bernardus Kuis, without profession, living in Uithuizen and the late Grietje Jans Graftema, died in Uithuistermeeden.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The two announcements have taken place here, without objections, on the 16th and the 23st of October 1859. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">And they have submitted to us, their birth certificates, the death certificate of the father of the groom, the death certificate of the mother of the bride, and a written consent/permit from the colonel commanding the second fortress artillery regiment. Furthermore, the fiancés told us, to acknowledge these two children, the first named Hendrik, born in Uithuizen on December 28, 1857, and the second named Margritha, born in Uithuizen on August 20, 1859, whose birth certificates are hereby submitted. The mother of the groom and the father of the bride, hereby present, declare to us, that they agree to this marriage. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">After which we have publicly asked them whether they will take one another as spouses and will faithfully fulfill all obligations, that are linked by law, to the marriage, what they explicitly answered with YES, have we, in the name of law, pronounced that they are now married to each other, as husband and wife. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">In the presence of Andreas Bulthuis, 62 years old, profession Inn keeper, living in Uithuizen, Willem Veldhuizen, 50 years old, profession secretary, living in Uithuizen, Roelf Pieters Hoff, 44 years old, by profession policeman, living in Uithuizen, and of Hendrik Bulthuis, 25 years old, baker's assistent by profession, living in Uithuizen. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">And from this, we made up this document which, after reading aloud, is signed by the declarant, the bride, the mother of the groom, the father of the bride, the witnesses and us. The groom declared not to be able to sign the document because he has never learned how to write.</span></div><div><br /></div>I don't know when Bernardus and Johanna came to America. The first census record they're in is from 1 Jun 1870 in the 1st ward of Grand Rapids, Kent County Michigan. On 10 Jun 1880 they're living in Chester Township, Ottawa County Michigan. <br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6K8KxNKwjubBbFMNebpWQJSJL6qB4vB3Gk5DXlDjcHhJRisu9rUFGOeNh0_UlsEf62x7OQSz7hnxUqbGXrNAyxZkHGD1nEpuTzC6ByVVrj5zII9WGBgw1iayTfByEA9VaBsIE16RFR7wq48mY-2wR7rxu10wxiSPk2bTt1n5-frcOI0DAX-8vTwSIcmgX/s2214/1870.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="2214" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6K8KxNKwjubBbFMNebpWQJSJL6qB4vB3Gk5DXlDjcHhJRisu9rUFGOeNh0_UlsEf62x7OQSz7hnxUqbGXrNAyxZkHGD1nEpuTzC6ByVVrj5zII9WGBgw1iayTfByEA9VaBsIE16RFR7wq48mY-2wR7rxu10wxiSPk2bTt1n5-frcOI0DAX-8vTwSIcmgX/w484-h133/1870.png" width="484" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1870 living with Bernardus' brother Henry's family. <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16815564/gesena_m_hug" target="_blank">Gesiena</a> was Nick's godmother</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVKJKEAuspRAsHTMbKQsskMUCba4T3fRRrMNs5ksjyBVWZNo1CGd2iK-BycZmbz54ERkBLzr4M6nCe9bhaLYSirHwFOJqaBm3mw1i8Yg78CWArqtFFYHJpvinkTiazOYxz121SvMl6AGc9EVVInV3dY7WYA7tHRpNea4qRdowlA9XhDRUtC7N2bZXc_hjT/s2372/1880.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="2372" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVKJKEAuspRAsHTMbKQsskMUCba4T3fRRrMNs5ksjyBVWZNo1CGd2iK-BycZmbz54ERkBLzr4M6nCe9bhaLYSirHwFOJqaBm3mw1i8Yg78CWArqtFFYHJpvinkTiazOYxz121SvMl6AGc9EVVInV3dY7WYA7tHRpNea4qRdowlA9XhDRUtC7N2bZXc_hjT/w481-h138/1880.png" width="481" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1880 living next door to Nick's parents Nick and Margaret. Their son Ben is incorrectly listed as a daughter. </td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div>Bernardus passed away of heart disease 20 Nov 1891 at Grand Rapids. I don't know if the family moved back to Grand Rapids, but he was <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20850561/bernardus_henderikus_cook" target="_blank">buried</a> at St. Andrews Catholic Cemetery. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5yaMaSeXgg8bX9lr20QlVzhx6ahxXpFsaUYvhHy_WYx3AqJZwcPoON5volAPgXe30-GgERAnM-Hyfp4BbdHp8vPn3DFpwxKE3mz50-_qeA7bUmY0lrUUJ7JL4KNu64sz1RIQKU0zMiiZyTU125-z7Oi8ccxlCV5pZRThpOi7GupRBv0hk03vd9zBx3U0q/s2488/Bernardus%20death.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="106" data-original-width="2488" height="14" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5yaMaSeXgg8bX9lr20QlVzhx6ahxXpFsaUYvhHy_WYx3AqJZwcPoON5volAPgXe30-GgERAnM-Hyfp4BbdHp8vPn3DFpwxKE3mz50-_qeA7bUmY0lrUUJ7JL4KNu64sz1RIQKU0zMiiZyTU125-z7Oi8ccxlCV5pZRThpOi7GupRBv0hk03vd9zBx3U0q/s320/Bernardus%20death.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfUBDTqsiT_rtmW3W4vKo-cKcyV6ZNzXnvKXeAB-XuzfOQJaB9JVTUYa7dUJHOtiaT9eZruUehV9lI5X91_NrI4I51mIAjUyf_5Q4DVRApNEVoQTEx5YPvAFCutHsgHD1ymzyq-HsmZp8IYVvyx0KXqpa2Hs_bq66U_a64uyv0hjSZac49424TFPg45zr0/s2234/1900.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="2234" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfUBDTqsiT_rtmW3W4vKo-cKcyV6ZNzXnvKXeAB-XuzfOQJaB9JVTUYa7dUJHOtiaT9eZruUehV9lI5X91_NrI4I51mIAjUyf_5Q4DVRApNEVoQTEx5YPvAFCutHsgHD1ymzyq-HsmZp8IYVvyx0KXqpa2Hs_bq66U_a64uyv0hjSZac49424TFPg45zr0/w456-h161/1900.png" width="456" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Johanna was living with Nick and Margaret in the 1900 census of Chester Township. They lived next door to Ida Cook Vander Laan, niece of Bernardus. <br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib2x4oli2qxIH_-SBRsTrqmfF8u4TVPebbgANNr_MQKYO7ltKSeXIFbhdpZQ9Obyo14K0P8IcR41bIDh1W2PvNUpQpbJJadOZ5UZU7gPyc-ZXtG6jLx8oDayL4i0sg_NR_pmKmP-jZQbWvdxgLe223Ju83PvJ7L50asRmONmXJfu5NSvfAEyjwIPRIdshT/s2475/Johanna%20Death.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="2263" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib2x4oli2qxIH_-SBRsTrqmfF8u4TVPebbgANNr_MQKYO7ltKSeXIFbhdpZQ9Obyo14K0P8IcR41bIDh1W2PvNUpQpbJJadOZ5UZU7gPyc-ZXtG6jLx8oDayL4i0sg_NR_pmKmP-jZQbWvdxgLe223Ju83PvJ7L50asRmONmXJfu5NSvfAEyjwIPRIdshT/s320/Johanna%20Death.jpg" width="293" /></a></div>Johanna passed away 3 Oct 1907 at Chester Township, allegedly of epilepsy. She's <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13987451/johanna_cook" target="_blank">laid to rest</a> near her daughter Margaret. <div><br /></div><div>You'll notice that both Bernardus and Johanna's death records indicate parents from the Netherlands. As you probably guessed, that's only partially correct. More on that in my next post. </div><div><br /></div><div>The Kock/Cook/Kuis lines have frustrated me greatly due to the lack of photos. If you're reading this and have any photos, please let me know. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-69758531612859198982024-03-13T20:33:00.000-07:002024-03-14T05:11:47.030-07:00My not so Dutch great-grandfather - part 1<p>Five years ago I wrote a blog about my great-grandpa Nicholas (Nick) Denhof's father <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/03/stuff-my-great-grandpa-probably-didnt.html" target="_blank">Nicolaas Denhof</a>. I mentioned that Nick was proud of his Dutch heritage but that his grandfathers listed Germany as their place of birth on some of their records (I doubt he ever knew that). Having not been able to verify the German with actual records I included what was listed on the records, but I've always kind of discounted it, especially since I couldn't find the alleged cities listed anywhere. </p><p>I have mentioned in multiple posts working with Robert Albert Jr. of California for several of my German lines (he's done some amazing work for me and broken down several brick walls). I decided to work on the Denhof line some more and reached out to him to see if he would be able to find anything. I (again) couldn't have been happier with the results. I titled this post "part 1" because I couldn't possibly squeeze everything he found into one post. There is so much German in my grandma's (Nick's daughter) ancestry, that I hesitate to even claim her "Dutchness". </p><p>Let's start with the direct Denhof line. I've been able to establish with actual records that Nicolaas Denhof was <a href="https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/19294100" target="_blank">born</a> 30 Apr 1854 at Uithuizen, Groningen, Netherlands to Jacobus Jacobs Denhof and Lammina van Heuvelen. I briefly mentioned them in the above blog link. Jacobus was <a href="https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/19256006" target="_blank">born</a> 17 Apr 1819 to Jacob Klaasens Denhof and Elisabeth Hendricks Sprik. He <a href="https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/6442128" target="_blank">married</a> Lammina 24 Apr 1841 at Kantens, Groningen Netherlands, and <a href="https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/13952228" target="_blank">died</a> at Uithuizen 12 Feb 1896. So we have Nick's grandpa Denhof completely Dutch. What about his great-grandpa Denhof?</p><p>Jacob Klaasens Denhof was found in the Dutch records when he <a href="https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/13851979" target="_blank">married</a> Elisabeth 5 Jun 1812 at Uithuizen, and when he <a href="https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/detail/14049770" target="_blank">died</a> at Kantens 29 Sep 1840. So his birth? We're back to the 1700s and birth records aren't available in the Netherlands but his marriage record lists his birth at Uithuizen 8 Feb 1772 at Uithuizen. Then why does his death record list birth at "Waan Duitsland"? I searched high and low for "Waan" and never found anything. He listed his parents as Klaas Jacobs and Aaltje Stevens when he married Elisabeth and I had a bit of information about them in my tree as well. </p><p>I hired a researcher in the Netherlands in the late 1990s (before the records were so readily available online) and they had Klaas' <a href="https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/zoeken/?advancedsearch=1" target="_blank">death</a> 4 Jan 1823 at Uithuizen (having been born at Zandeweer, Netherlands). His wife was listed as Hindrikje Harms, and that <a href="https://www.wiewaswie.nl/nl/zoeken/?advancedsearch=1" target="_blank">marriage record</a> was also found. As I paid a reputable researcher in the Netherlands I took this information as gospel, added it to my tree, and moved on. </p><p>When Robert and I started discussing this Robert found a possible city in Germany called "Wahn" (which from <a href="https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/108525/Former-Village-Wahn.htm" target="_blank">this post</a> doesn't exist anymore). Of course a possible city doesn't mean anything without records. Robert hunted down the marriage bann for Jacobus and Elisabeth and noted <i>if you go and look at the MARRIAGE BANN record from 1812 for Denhof/Sprik, you will see that it states that his father is Klaas Jacobs, and he is living in Werlte, a town near Sögel in Germany, and that his wife Aaltje Stevens is deceased by 1812. Will keep you posted. I am hoping to find some more clues, and fyi, the Werlte parish has lots of folks from Sögel and Wahn and area listed in that church, so I may have to expand catholic church searches in this area. Fortunately they list when catholic churches were built over time, so for instance on the Sögel main page it tells me that Wahn got a catholic church in 1869. Werlte is an oldie that goes back to the 1600's too.</i></p><p>So now we have a likely town, we just need records to prove it's correct. Given that I already had a death record for Klaas Jacobs I was finding it odd that Klaas was born in the Netherlands, moved to Germany and had a family, lost his wife and moved back to the same area of the Netherlands and remarried. We're not talking a simple road trip in the late 1700s - it wasn't making sense to me. Then Robert found the actual birth record:</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0fTPUFmzcBpdYFho1dtXYZwqeYM0aWOyRhTau0XXTJi4ZzjQQQgkq_LF-0W4luEz5pxYGnMkbabjeLXbB3sXyL4jRnRK19K-4CpFgJ_CLguOzlQABBTpGCELoWy5r_zo81Ir1J_56QBVilG8hsETnWoSUv6K3tNE2qCQV6zrTp3OnDwX_Zj3H6rfEKMnh/s2640/BIRTH1772JacobKlaasensSo%CC%88gelCathChurchPg33of66-2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1816" data-original-width="2640" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0fTPUFmzcBpdYFho1dtXYZwqeYM0aWOyRhTau0XXTJi4ZzjQQQgkq_LF-0W4luEz5pxYGnMkbabjeLXbB3sXyL4jRnRK19K-4CpFgJ_CLguOzlQABBTpGCELoWy5r_zo81Ir1J_56QBVilG8hsETnWoSUv6K3tNE2qCQV6zrTp3OnDwX_Zj3H6rfEKMnh/w443-h305/BIRTH1772JacobKlaasensSo%CC%88gelCathChurchPg33of66-2.jpg" width="443" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h1 class="mediaTitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: ui-sans, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">BIRTH1772JacobKlaasensSögelCathChurchPg33of66</h1></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Even if I'd have had access to these records I'd have never found this one as I can't read it without it being pointed out to me but there it was: <i>I went back and just started to go through the entire year of 1772, when I got to the SEVENTH of OCTOBER I found it. Jacob Klassens and his wife Adelheid Steffens are the parents, and Joannes Steffens and Catharina Nordberg are the witnesses. You will see on the entry above his, that person's record is the 30th of a month. Right below you see 8ber. That is Acht ober, or October. They use this abbreviation frequently for 7ber, 8ber, 9ber, 10ber, for Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec. It was also on the next to last page of the records of births for that year, so no clue as to how they got February out of it, and the day is clearly listed as the 7th. I'm just glad it was there.</i></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxaFH7I_bHdE3BE8eMZQYZKRRG4JxdUhA4PB3z27MXwZhsbUg4gFGuQTeWbgLxIhAfg7uqb362LDRDUXUS3rPcJSL3vF34og6jzsf1jVVi5S6b6utb-pf243MjIlhp5CPUC6FeqSdX7x4cUizgUeEs_CrOi5DyLFc4ZOxZmGM9nwPjjhYeGp9eHf-OIR3/s1980/MAR1771JacobsSteffensSo%CC%88gelCatholicChurchPg32of63.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="1980" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhxaFH7I_bHdE3BE8eMZQYZKRRG4JxdUhA4PB3z27MXwZhsbUg4gFGuQTeWbgLxIhAfg7uqb362LDRDUXUS3rPcJSL3vF34og6jzsf1jVVi5S6b6utb-pf243MjIlhp5CPUC6FeqSdX7x4cUizgUeEs_CrOi5DyLFc4ZOxZmGM9nwPjjhYeGp9eHf-OIR3/s320/MAR1771JacobsSteffensSo%CC%88gelCatholicChurchPg32of63.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h1 class="mediaTitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: ui-sans, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">MAR1771JacobsSteffensSögelCatholicChurchPg32of63</h1></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim7gytCx7m3eH3Q6lo7wx6Xlu9m0RmyXKDWCbRObTLrN1sTnZitl-tNqkzYFfI3fNmTQNYoZai8bntMph6CPUl2eTQpwBS3qou15UwmkZ5uqeTD_LccX8mbHys7ufGI8DpreAAkuVxHiZvYODfNHmTa6r9h3W8G7ds22kfw-fnB8NeDa5jl8QLoJH2kb2A/s3960/DEATH1823NicolausJacobsWerlteCatholicChurchPg41of63.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1612" data-original-width="3960" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim7gytCx7m3eH3Q6lo7wx6Xlu9m0RmyXKDWCbRObTLrN1sTnZitl-tNqkzYFfI3fNmTQNYoZai8bntMph6CPUl2eTQpwBS3qou15UwmkZ5uqeTD_LccX8mbHys7ufGI8DpreAAkuVxHiZvYODfNHmTa6r9h3W8G7ds22kfw-fnB8NeDa5jl8QLoJH2kb2A/s320/DEATH1823NicolausJacobsWerlteCatholicChurchPg41of63.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h1 class="mediaTitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(38, 38, 38); color: #262626; font-family: ui-sans, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: start; white-space: pre-wrap;">DEATH1823NicolausJacobsWerlteCatholicChurchPg41of63</h1></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Nicolaus Jacobs and Adelheid Steffens married 26 Nov 1771 at Sögel. He can't find a death record for Adelheid but he did find that Nicolaus remarried to a Gesina Kuper/Cuper 18 Nov 1778, also at Sögel. That remarriage was key to proving the death record was the correct subject. </div><div><br /></div>Nicolaus Jacobs died at Bockholte 4 Jan 1823 and was buried 7 Jan 1823 at Wertle, the town his son listed him living in in 1812. His death is the bottom listing at age 96 (which is ironic as my grandmother, his 3rd great granddaughter is currently 96). The name of his 2nd wife is clearly listed there, proving it's him. Does anything strike you odd about the death record? This "Klaas Jacobs" (actually Nicolaus Jacobs) <b>ALSO DIED 4 Jan 1823???</b> What are the chances that my Dutch researcher got this wrong so many years ago but had the right death date? Seems implausible to me but having been witness to it, I can't deny that it happened. When I noticed the death date I mentioned it to Robert (I was not questioning him as we'd discussed this evidence and I was convinced he's correct). I re-sent him the Dutch Klaas Jacobs death record and he sent the following: <div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><div><i>Thanks for sending that. Of course I had seen the record before and looked at it, just never realized that the two folks had the same date of death and for all intents and purposes the same name as well. The difference between the 2 records is that nothing on this record is obviously connected to your ancestor. The witnesses submitting the information 2 months after that man died in the Netherlands, or the wife, etc. etc. Your original tree had the date and the wife added, but nothing on it really links it to your tree other than the name.</i></div><div><br /><div><div><div><div><i>On the German records, as you know we have:</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>1- place of birth (Wahn) in Germany of his son which we have from the Netherlands docs</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>2- son's marriage bann where it says the very town that his father was living in 1812</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>3- the marriage of the father to Adhelheid Steffens and children born to them in Sogel</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>4- the second marriage of his father and children born in Werlte</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>5- the death record for the father listing his second wife's name</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>6- the death record for the father.</i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>If I had seen in that first record anything at all that really linked him to your tree, I would maybe have paused even longer, but there is just so much evidence that the latter is the correct one for sure and this is just one of those freaky coincidences.</i></div></div></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So my great-grandpa Denhof's dad was Dutch, and his grandpa Denhof was Dutch, but the great-grandfather and likely way beyond has now been confirmed as German. That's only one of Nick's ancestors - was Robert able to prove more? Stay tuned.......</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As an aside - my youngest was named Jacob Nicholas (both of my dad's grandfathers were named Nicholas). Robert finding that "Klaas Jacobs" was actually Nicolaus Jacobs means that the name Nicholas or Jacob goes straight back in this line until at least about 1727: Nicholas Paul>Nicolaas>Jacobus Jacobs>Jacob Klaasens>Nicolaus Jacobs. It wasn't deliberate but I think it's pretty neat. </div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-60724879546966574622024-03-12T20:35:00.000-07:002024-03-12T20:35:56.815-07:00It's been almost 10 years (and only 74 blog posts)<p> My wife asked me the other day "why don't you blog anymore"? She thinks I'm a good writer and knows I enjoyed doing it. I don't have a good answer other than I guess I always find something else to do (and it's not reading the growing book collection I'm building when thrifting, much to her chagrin). I keep renewing my <a href="http://ancestry.com">ancestry.com</a> membership because they keep giving me a deal. With my job it's nice to have something "mindless" to do at night and quite frankly those little 'shaky leafs' are pretty mindless. You do have to pay attention to them to make sure they're the correct record, and often there are transcription errors but for the most part, it's click-compare-add-done. So much so that I've currently got 430,612 of those records attached to people in my tree. You read that right - I've matched a little short of a half million records to people in my tree. My order history at Ancestry shows my first subscription 7/21/2012. The Google tells me there have been 4,252 days since then meaning I'm averaging 101 records/day. Doing the math on that shocks me as I've taken a few significant breaks during this time and I don't have time to work on it daily. </p><p>In my <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/03/testing-blogging-waters.html" target="_blank">first post</a> I posted that I had 44,993 people in my tree. Fast forward to today and it's 136,222 (see, I am actually doing something with the shaky leafs)! One thing that's helped is that most of my family stayed in Michigan and the Library of Michigan now has a ton of newspapers available online (do you know how many people you can add to your tree when you're able to look up birth and marriage announcements and obituaries while sitting on your couch?). In the past I had to drive downtown, usually with a list of items to find, then find what microfilm I wanted to search (hoping the record was indexed in their books) and then search for the page. Now? I put a name in and hit search and it brings the pages to me in seconds. In <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-methods-to-my-madness-and-some-of.html" target="_blank">another early post</a> I posted a list of links that I used back then. Looking that list over about half of them are still valid (some have just changed urls, which seems silly to me). I'd add <a href="http://www.newspapers.com" target="_blank">newspapers.com</a> and the aforementioned <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/public/online-resources-for-library-cardholders" target="_blank">Library of Michigan</a> site. Seriously, if you live in Michigan and are interested in genealogy (or history in general) sign up for a library card (<a href="https://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan/public/get-a-library-card" target="_blank">another thing you can do from your couch</a>) and get to searching - it's FREE!</p><p>The one thing I wrote back then that I absolutely disagree with now is use of the <a href="http://www.familysearch.org">www.familysearch.org</a> family tree. Their idea is wonderful - have people collaborate on one world tree. Unfortunately there are so many people that are so careless that the information is almost useless. I have tried to fix errors in "my part" of the tree and I have given up. I regret giving that recommendation, but one regret isn't bad at all.</p><p>Why am I posting this tonight? I think it's neat to look back and see how things have changed. I also think I'm going to try to heed her advice and try some blogging again. I'm a tad bored with what I've been doing in my tree and I enjoy telling the stories about the people and how information came together. Who knows if anyone will read it or how long I'll stick with it but I'll give it another try. Wish me luck!</p><p><br /></p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-46268050544780024382023-01-01T10:53:00.001-08:002024-03-12T19:46:02.933-07:00Mind BLOWN - another ThruLines discovery<p> I haven't blogged in over a year and am not going to make excuses - just haven't felt like it. Perhaps with the ridiculous price of an ancestry.com membership I'll start blogging instead of working on my tree. </p><p>Anyway, I have been working on my tree and occasionally checking ThruLines to see if there are any new discoveries. I had <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-freiheit-family-mystery-and-my.html" target="_blank">previously blogged about</a> my 3rd great grandparents John and Minnie (Helm) Freiheit If you haven't read the previous blog it boils down to the fact that the researcher I paid found John and Minnie's marriage in 1857 but also found that Minnie had been previously married to Johann Friedrich Theodor Springborn in 1854 and had a son Heinrich Carl Christian Springborn in 1855. Given her remarriage and no records found for her first husband and son, I figured they both died, Minnie remarried and came to America. I believed that until 12/21 when I found this:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlagwc8D0yF-fucgU23AfRQYiMf2onfOamRYMTnq36e2fsyfMdJUn1j_9yW_YHBE3rTNunplBB6Qy-C6phESLQDGHZdmqgGRZRTqOC0GeJa-vMj8PE4MwxpwgDzqUyEpUP0i_jdKgIzDk5ffGSsBZV-P8tdn_DLJ-BgZK4TbL76IV04ZVs_YbdWYBqA/s2390/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-01%20at%201.15.28%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="2390" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlagwc8D0yF-fucgU23AfRQYiMf2onfOamRYMTnq36e2fsyfMdJUn1j_9yW_YHBE3rTNunplBB6Qy-C6phESLQDGHZdmqgGRZRTqOC0GeJa-vMj8PE4MwxpwgDzqUyEpUP0i_jdKgIzDk5ffGSsBZV-P8tdn_DLJ-BgZK4TbL76IV04ZVs_YbdWYBqA/w543-h227/Screen%20Shot%202023-01-01%20at%201.15.28%20PM.png" width="543" /></a></div><br /><p>I have 3 connections via Charles Springborn? Who is Charles? I looked at one of the trees and found that Charles IS Heinrich Carl Christian Springborn. He came to America with his dad and stepmother in 1864, where they settled in Manistee County Michigan. Charles' dad John Springborn also had what appears to be his 2nd wife Marie, a son Frederick and a daughter Fredericka with him. Looking at the tree and other records online and Fredericka was also Minnie's daughter with him, and Frederick was born as an illegitimate child in 1852 as Frederick Helm. </p><p>It seems impossible that Minnie was married, had 3 children and ended up remarried and moving to America with her 2nd family and settling in the same area as her first family? I have Minnie's probate record and it only lists her Freiheit children, furthering the case in my mind that this tree has to be wrong. The problem is, DNA doesn't lie. I match 3 different people descended from Charles Springborn.</p><p>I reached out to Robert Albert, the researcher that I hired over a decade ago that busted down this brick wall and he was still at the email address I had. He took a look and concurred with the tree, and that Minnie's first family did indeed come to America. He found the ship record and there's a youngest daughter yet to be placed, that could be Minnie Helm's daughter, or the Marie that John Springborn remarried to. His guesses as to what happened are as plausible as any:</p><p><i><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="caret-color: rgb(40, 63, 115);">Yeah, as to that youngest child, I haven't looked to see how she is connected. According to the Hamburg list it says she is a child, presumably of Johann Friedrich Springborn, but if he had a "fling" with Marie, who would have been say 20 at conception, and he being 31, this "could" have been the spark that dissolved the family. Or perhaps even more likely is that Minnie had an affair with Mr. Freiheit, and so J. F. Springborn leaves her and takes the children with him because she is "unfit", and meets up with Marie. </span><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="caret-color: rgb(40, 63, 115);">Maybe Minnie getting pregnant was the straw that broke the camel's back. Wish we could go back in time and visit this household to get the story th</span></i><i><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Helvetica Neue", "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"" style="caret-color: rgb(40, 63, 115);">at I agree has been lost to eternity. I am sure no one living post emigration wanted to retell it for sure. But then to think that she brings her new beau and kids to the same spot in the USA is just... wow! WOW!!!!! Yeah, this is maybe the best unknown story I have ever heard of in all my years of researching. Remarkable.</span></i></p>Of even further intrigue is that sailing with the Springborn family is a Dorothea Kehnscherper. Minnie Helm Freiheit's mother's name was Maria Dorothea Kehnscherper. I don't know anything about Maria Dorothea yet, but the age on the ship log makes it unlikely that she's Minnie's mother but there has to be a connection. <br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><p>This is all developing and I have Robert on the project again. He doesn't have his business website anymore but if he's officially doing research still I'll try to get his information into a blog. He is friendly, thorough, reasonable, and honest. I very much enjoy working with him. He's already added to my Freiheit family, as records are available online now that weren't a decade ago. I could probably find the records, but I can't read them so hiring him to ensure I don't miss anything or record it incorrectly is absolutely worth it.</p>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-34791770631937050602020-12-18T21:42:00.010-08:002020-12-19T08:46:39.027-08:00As promised, the start of the Siersema letters<p>So I blogged on 12/3 promising to blog more and then vanished for 16 days. I guess that's par for the course. I do have a pseudo-excuse though! I got to looking through the letters written by Albert Siersema to see what ones I wanted to post. I read Albert's letter from 21 Jul 1866 where he mentions to Paulus den Bleyker that "nephew Klaas Vlaming has died in Halifax, Canada". I knew that his wife Tryntje's sister Pietertje married to Biem Vlaming so I went to find Klaas. Klaas was born 4 Nov 1832 at Texel to Biem and his 1st wife Antje Bakker. I started to write him off as not actually related until I noted that the marriage record of Biem and Antje 19 Dec 1830 listed Antje's parents as Cornelis Bakker and Trijntje <i>Dogger. </i>Klaas was indeed related, just in a different way. (The number of cousins from Texel that married is mind-blowing, in today's day). I got down the rabbit hole of working on Cornelis and Trijntje's family and then the siblings of Trijntje. With the records available online I found (in the last 16 days) 711 new people to add to my tree. These kinds of rabbit holes are a big reason I end up not blogging. </p><p>Anyway, since I mentioned that letter I'll start the Albert Siersema letters with that one. 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Nowadays it is with us and the here living family also well, except for our little Duwertje, who is suffering with the reed in the front finger of her right hand for 4 weeks and suffered a lot of pain.<br />After a long wait, I can inform you that here, in the previous week, we received the message from Pella, Iowa, that nephew Klaas Vlaming has died in Halifax, Canada, but which day we don't know yet.<br />A. Eelman has received this message on his letter from a man, who arrived with him and who knew nothing else to report. We will further investigate the time and circumstances via a man, who stayed behind with Klaas at Halifax and arrived eleven days, after the first in Pella. <br />A. Eelman bought 80 fields of land for a thousand dollars. It is on the same road where Sakom Dogger lives. Just a mile north of him. There is 40 fields between Aris (Eelman) and that what Paul now owns.<br />It is, as far as I know, very beautiful and a good field. I would not be able find a better field here in North-Holland, Michigan.<br />Paul already offered him 100 dollars in profits when he was here with his goods. <br />Paul also has a good piece of land, but has with his experience deteriorated a lot, but this is how it goes, if man is so unsatisfied with the appreciation of God's benefits.<br />The crop are generally good here and if there isn't much weevil (an insect) in the wheat, which have been detected initially, it can yield good results as far as the crop is concerned.<br />There is also quite a lot of grass. <br />Warm greetings from us to you and your wife and children and friends.<br />With respect and wishing you good health.<br />Written in haste.<br /><br />brother-in-law,<br /><br />Albert Siersema.</i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4hf_lrbbLBv_lAtVgWzsqOZ79IFCTBjLt9Db4JxLtMY-H3tThffSNCKwJVDU7Z5d5TqVnHdDxPiWdphwRm64dMd8GEW4u8c1OyByc6e0qD6uxlULfSsKSfmz5xjM4R0GXbv69JY0dnlw/s1530/Screen+Shot+2020-12-19+at+12.30.31+AM.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1530" data-original-width="1122" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ4hf_lrbbLBv_lAtVgWzsqOZ79IFCTBjLt9Db4JxLtMY-H3tThffSNCKwJVDU7Z5d5TqVnHdDxPiWdphwRm64dMd8GEW4u8c1OyByc6e0qD6uxlULfSsKSfmz5xjM4R0GXbv69JY0dnlw/s320/Screen+Shot+2020-12-19+at+12.30.31+AM.png" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I was hoping to discover who was in Pella Iowa that would have written Albert but I didn't make a connection. When Trijntje Dogger's husband Cornelis Bakker died in 1812 she remarried to Meijert Boon. She had a daughter Cornelisje who married Jan Eelman and had a son <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95898728/arie-eelman">Arie Eelman</a>, who is possibly who Albert is referring to. His family appears to settled in New Jersey, not Iowa, so that mystery isn't solved yet.<br /><br />In a letter 14 Dec 1866 he informs Paulus the following update about Klaas Vlaming's death: <br /><br /><i>Since I wrote to you last, we have also received further information from Pella (Iowa) about Klaas Vlaming. Namely that he died on the night between April 22 and 23. He also came to his end under sad circumstances. While the Dutch, who looked after him a bit during the day, left him alone at night, so that they found him dead in the morning and already robbed of what was still valuable to him. His money, that he still had with him because he still had hope for a better future.<br />Still a sad situation, so abandoned of everyone. To die alone under a piece of canvas. <br /></i><br />These finds are really cool because in all of the online trees Klaas exists in, none of them had a death date for him. This letter is probably the only existing proof of what happened to him, although I don't know why he was in Canada. His wife Neeltje Boon and his daughter Antje both died in 1864 so he had no immediate family at the time of his death.<br /><br />More letters to come. </div></div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-68292493492318487772020-12-03T23:44:00.003-08:002020-12-03T23:48:56.111-08:00Where have the last 17 months gone?So, I haven't blogged since 2 Jul 2019. What on Earth happened to cause that? We went on a family vacation/work trip for my wife on Jul 3rd and I had every intention of continuing to blog when I returned. The problem was my laptop. I have insisted on buying Windows laptops for the last 10+ years, in spite of the fact that they become v-e-r-y slow within a couple years. The last one I bought ended up taking 10+ minutes to boot (if it would - I'd often have to reboot it several times to get to the desktop). I was doing most of my genealogy on my iPad anyway so I decided not to spend the money to replace it. The problem with that was that I don't really know how to use Mac products and the thought of blogging with an iPad was a bridge too far.....so I just stopped. It was compounded by me taking a different position at work, resulting in a different shift. It doesn't mean that I didn't want to blog or didn't find new items to blog about. I finally decided on Black Friday that the time had come to replace my laptop and I went with the new MacBook Air with the M1 chip and the 512GB hard drive. It was a few hundred dollars more up front but I think it'll last at least twice as long as my Windows laptops. After a week of using it I thought I'd see if I can successfully blog with it. The file system on these is not user-friendly at all but I'm going to try.
For posterity sake I'm going to update my tree numbers. I blogged <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/03/where-has-time-gone-and-have-i-lost-my.html" target="_blank">18 Mar 2019</a> (the last time I'd been away awhile) and my tree had grown to 107,895 people and I'd attached 249,223 records (the little "shaky leafs" on ancestry.com). I'm actually shocked at the current numbers, thinking they'd be higher given how much work I'd done on my tree in the last 17 months but I still made some progress.
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I left off on my blogs about items I'd received from my grandpa's cousin on his Burke side. I do have more I can blog there but I'm going to switch gears and do a few blogs regarding the most exciting genealogy find I've had in years, courtesy of my Kraai cousin Mary. <div><br /></div><div>Mary frequently uses Google to find new records/websites about our Dutch ancestry (I have a plethora of her emails I'm catching up on now that I have a laptop and can start updating my tree with her new information). One set of our shared ancestors are my 4th great-grandparents Albert and Trijntje (Dogger) Siersema. I have <a href="https://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-siersema-farm.html" target="_blank">blogged about them a couple times already</a>.
Mary wrote that she found the information like this:
<i>"It all began when I started a Google search for Hertje Sakomsz Dogger, grandfather of Albert Siersema's wife, Trijntje Dogger. I located a site that gave a link to information on him, as well as other Texel people, including a link to Albert Siersema: https://vandekrol.org/histories/Book13-5thEdition-bewerkt-2.pdf. (On page 80, the author refers to letters by Siersema at Bentley Library.) Then, I contacted you about going to Ann Arbor together. What a great day it was! We hadn't gotten together in probably a couple years, but our conversation was nonstop all the way there and back!"</i>
</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>The Bentley Historical Library is part of the University of Michigan (<b>Go Blue!</b>) and 2 hours from Grand Rapids. We made the trip on 16 Dec 2019 because she contacted the research librarian there who stated there were (2) letters written by Albert Siersema in the collection. 4 hours round trip is quite the hike to scan 2 letters but I love these kinds of finds and hadn't seen Mary in awhile so we decided to go for it. (Little did we know COVID would destroy any chance of doing anything like this for at least a year shortly after the trip). </div><div><br /></div><div>We don't know why the Bentley Historical Library has this collection but it's the <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-851056" target="_blank">collection of Paulus den Bleyker</a>, who's 2nd wife was Neeltje Dogger, sister of Trijntje. Several of the families came to America together from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texel" target="_blank">island of Texel</a>. Paulus was a wealthy landowner who settled in Kalamazoo Michigan, while most of the Dogger and Siersema families settled in and around Holland Michigan. From the letters we scanned, Paulus gave a lot of economic assistance to many of the families and was highly regarded. He was a prolific letter writer and apparently kept <u>everything,</u> which worked out well for us.</div><div><br /></div><div>My stepmother translated all of the letters for us (which we are both eternally grateful for) and, in spite of driving to Ann Arbor to scan 2 letters from Albert Siersema we ended up with the following:</div><div><br /></div><div><b>45</b> letters written by Albert Siersema, dating from 3 May 1856 - 21 Oct 1872 </div><div>4 letters from Texel written by Biem Vlaming, Trijntje's brother-in-law (via her sister Pietertje Dogger, who wrote on 2 of these 4 letters and wrote 1 letter of her own)</div><div>3 letters from Texel written by Cornelis Dogger, uncle of Trijntje</div><div>4 letters from Texel written by Hertje Dogger, brother of Trijntje </div><div>48 letters written by Paulus den Bleyker (starting in 1848) - we only scanned letters written by him that appeared to have mention names we recognized</div><div>5 letters written by Pieter Dogger, nephew of Trijntje who appeared very close to Paulus</div><div>13 letters written by Sakom Dogger, brother of Trijntje</div><div>1 letter written by Trijntje herself (she also finished one of Albert's 45 letters)</div><div><br /></div><div>That's 124 letters she translated along with another dozen or so that were scattered random letters or were people less recognized in the family. One of them was from Lambertus Mepjans, who happens to be the brother of Hilligien Mepjans Wieghmink, mother of Gertrude Wieghmink Kraai (my 2nd great-grandmother and Mary's great-grandmother). Gertrude's husband Albert Kraai was the son of Jacob and Demutje (Siersema) Kraai, Demutje being Albert and Trijntje's daughter. Lambertus wrote to Paulus because of money he owed him. It's a benign letter but cool to see his handwriting. I doubt that he or Paulus had any idea of their familial "relationship". </div><div><br /></div><div>There were 10 boxes to go through and we went fast. I took photos with my iPad because trying to scan them would have taken forever. The library would only allow one box at the table at a time, in spite of 2 of us researching and there were 10 full boxes of folders/papers so we realistically did not have enough time. I wanted to return this year and take more time going through the collection but alas, it will have to wait. I will say that it was absolutely incredible holding original 164 year old letters written by a direct ancestor but I was disappointed in the care that the library is showing for the collection. The letters are all in folders, many paper clipped together with rusty paperclips. None of them are in archival sleeves and it appears that there has been no attempt to actually preserve the collection. The entire time we went through the boxes I kept thinking that I needed to just take the letters home (I obviously wouldn't have and didn't) so that I could preserve them. I think the only reason they were in the condition they were in is that it's probably not a collection that is gone through often. In spite of that, it was a great day spent with a wonderful cousin. This blog has gotten lengthy so I will save the start of the actual letters for my next blog (which I promise to do within the week). Stay tuned!</div><div><br /></div>Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-22854796208008882312019-07-02T20:29:00.002-07:002019-07-04T21:04:28.488-07:00Hilma's letter from OregonI know I already blogged today but I'm getting ready to go on vacation and won't be able to post for a couple of weeks so I thought I'd squeeze another in today.<br />
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My grandpa's cousin Shelly found a lot of letters that Hilma had written that she ended up with. My grandpa had given me 3 letters that Hilma wrote to him but Shelly had an additional 18 of them. It's nice to have her handwriting and you can tell <i>how</i> she spoke by the way she spelled different words. She very obviously had a thick Swedish accent but did know English. One letter in particular struck me as potentially helpful to my research, but it took me several years to figure it out.<br />
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I have to preface the letter by posting a communion book record that I posted in my last blog, and that I posted in the blog I referenced from 2016.<br />
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When I was revisiting these records I'd received I took note of the family listed below Lisa Greta's family - Stina Johanna is most definitely Benjam Kiviniemi's sister. This record shows her husband and 6 children. I added them to my tree and moved on, since I'm having so much difficulty tracking these families beyond the communion books. That was until I revisited this letter:<br />
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Of course the stamp and postmark were cut off so I don't know what year this happened but it definitely is a visit to a cousin. On the 2nd page of the letter she mentions "may kusen" (my cousin). She mentions that the cousin didn't remember her and that the last time they saw each other was when Hilma left for America, when the cousin was 9 years old. Because I had seen that Stina Johanna's family was listed on that communion record I knew I had some of Hilma's cousins in my tree, one born in 1888. I went into ancestry.com and searched for all women named Elna, who were born about 1888 and lived in Coos Bay Oregon and lo and behold:<br />
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I then did the "Member Connect" (ancestry's matching of uploaded family trees) to see if anyone had Elna in their tree and several people did. Upon looking a bit I found that Stina's daughters Judith and Alma also came to America and I was able to trace those families (and have reached out to a descendant already). I got one of the daughter's obituaries and it also listed a sister Ida so there is one child not yet born yet when the communion record was written. </div>
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-19213676462032959282019-07-02T07:20:00.002-07:002019-07-03T08:07:46.185-07:00Revisiting a record I already hadSo in my last blog about Hilma I referenced <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2016/08/" target="_blank">another blog</a>. I wrote that in 2016 shortly after receiving the new information that I had received, which completely shocked the descendants of Hilma who had no idea that she had an additional sibling Selma (that we aren't sure what happened to but guess didn't come to America). I'm not going to repost the additional record for Selma or for the birth of her son Nils Ragnar but I did want to revisit some of the records because I completely missed something the first time.<br />
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So as mentioned twice previously, Hilma was born to Benjam(in) Henriksson Kiviniemi and Lisa Greta Johansdotter Känsäkangas (have also seen her listed as Rasmus).<br />
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Benjam was born 14 Feb 1859 at Kivijärvi Finland to Henrik Mattsson Kivijarvi (1829-1887) and Anna Caisa Andersdotter (1830-????). He's listed as Benjam and Benjamin in various records. As stated before, he abandoned the family about 1881 and allegedly went to America, although I can't find him anywhere. His birth is listed as record #17 on the upper left section of this book page.<br />
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<i>Many thanks to Alan for finding Benjam's birth record and marriage to Lisa Greta for me today!</i><br />
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Lisa Greta was born 18 Jan 1855 at Kaustinen Finland to Jonas Johansson Känsäkangas-Virkkala (1818-1868) and Helena Johansdotter Hotakainen (1817-????). There is a project that was turned into a book called the <a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/Caino_and_Torp_families.html?id=W5XlAAAACAAJ" target="_blank">"Caino-Torp"</a> book that takes the Känsäkangas family back to the 1500s.<br />
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Benjam and Lisa Greta were married 4 Nov 1877 at Karleby Finland. Their marriage record is the last record on the bottom of the right page.<br />
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So in this communion book for 1885-1894 Lisa Greta is shown with her family (although there is a note that her husband left for America in 1881). She's listed with her in-laws above her, her 3 daughters, including the illegitimate Selma, and her sister-in-law and her family below.<br />
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I was also given this communion book page, which covers the exact same time frame (1885-1894). In this one Lisa Greta is almost listed as a member of the family of her 2nd husband Gustaf Robert Wäyrynen, tacked onto the end of his family, which included his 1st wife and their 4 children, and again Selma.<br />
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Lisa Greta marries Gustaf Robert Wäyrynen 22 Jul 1894 at Karleby Finland. His 1st wife passed away 5 Jun 1893 at Karleby. Lisa Greta is 39 years old when she remarries and her husband is 42 years old and they have 6 children between them. Surely Hilma doesn't have any further siblings (at least on her mother's side)?<br />
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This is the record I missed. I was given it, with an explanation of what the notations in the right column were and filed it away. As I was going back through records and corresponding with Alan again I noticed another child, Karl Emil, listed with the family. Who is Karl and what is he doing with the family? I asked Alan who did a little digging and...........<br />
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.......lo and behold, Karl Emil was indeed born to Gustaf and Lisa Greta, who had (what I think is) her last child at the age of 42. His birth is the middle record on the right page.<br />
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I'm not sure how I overlooked this child the first time but it proves again that you need to have to have a pair of studying eyes when you look over documents. Overlooking something like this can limit future benefits of receiving the document. How you ask?<br />
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For me, I work on the ancillary lines - descendants of my direct ancestor siblings. I'm trying to track down what happened to Lisa Greta - if one of Karl Emil's descendants works on the tree (alas there is nothing that I can find to indicate this yet) but I don't have him in my tree I may not make a connection. Same with a photo of Lisa Greta - entirely possible that there's a photo of her - perhaps it's the unidentified photo in the first post I referenced. Perhaps one of Karl Emil's grandchildren is still living and has a photo. Again, he needs to be in my tree for that to work. What about DNA testing? If one of Karl's children or grandchildren get DNA tested, they may eventually show as a match in my tree. If Karl isn't in my tree it's entirely likely that the connection could be missed. In my mind the ancillary lines are just as important when you're trying to track down records and photographs that, if they exist, are in the hands of descendants. I know for a fact that Hilma and Anna's descendants do not have them so I have to rely on Selma or Karl Emil's descendants. Perhaps one of them will read this and solve the mystery for me?<br />
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-62749964480308001352019-06-29T10:21:00.000-07:002019-06-30T21:24:46.471-07:00Hilma Johanna Benjaminsdotter Kiviniemi, aka Hilma Johanna StoneThis is my 2nd attempt at this blog. I had a full blog written last night but went to publish it and it wouldn't. I rebooted my laptop, figuring my browser would reload as it always does and it did, with just the title of the post. Needless to say I'm more than irked by that.<br />
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Anyway, I've already blogged twice about Hilma, once about some <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2016/08/" target="_blank">new information</a> that was found about a sibling we didn't know about and once about her <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2016/10/my-2nd-great-grandmothers-sewing-machine.html" target="_blank">sewing machine</a>. It's time for a post dedicated to just her information.<br />
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Hilma Johanna Benjaminsdotter Kiviniemi was born at Gamlakarleby Finland 21 Jun 1879 to Benjamin Henriksson Kiviniemi and Lisa Greta Johansdotter Känsäkangas. She had a sister Anna Elisabeth born right around when her dad apparently left the family and vanished, allegedly to America. Her mother went on to have a daughter Selma born out of wedlock and then a son (that's for another blog). I have found no correspondence for Hilma with either parent, but all indications are that her mother stayed in Finland.<br />
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I haven't been able to find a ship log for Hilma or her sister Anna coming to America but the same gentleman that found Emil's ship log for me did find this record of her passport being issued 19 Aug 1897 so I assume she left for America shortly after that. Given that she's listed in a communion record with Emil's family and came before her sister I assume that she came here to reunite with him.<br />
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This document was folded inside one of the bibles that my grandpa's cousin Shelly gave me. I posted a picture of it on a Finnish genealogy Facebook group and this is the translation that was provided:<br />
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<i>The text is in Swedish (used as official language before in Finland). It says: Lodger Hilma Johanna Benjaminsdotter Kiviniemi (Finn. Hilma Johanna Benjaminintytär Kiviniemi), from the Storby (Finn. Isokylä) village of this parish, born 21.06.1879 here, is eligible for Holy Communion in this Evangelical-Lutheran parish, is vaccinated and is enjoying trust as a citizen. In Gamlakarleby (Finn. Kokkola), August 18, 1897. F.W. Neunstedt, Pastor.</i><br />
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Given that this is dated one day prior to her passport being issued, I'm guessing she needed this to get the passport.<br />
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This photo came from Hilma's grandson David Johnson (1930-2018), who was the adopted son of her daughter Ellen. He lived a few streets over from my grandpa and would occasionally walk over and say hi. My grandpa brought me over to his house once and he showed me a gallon sized Ziploc bag of photos that had one belonged to Ellen. He let me bring them home to scan them and when I returned them I asked if I could keep this one to put in my acid free photo album to protect it (and he agreed). I think he'd have given me the whole bag if I had asked - he was a great guy.<br />
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Emil and Hilma married 5 Dec 1899 at Ashland Wisconsin and although I have a plethora of photos of them, I don't have a wedding photo. This one <i>could</i> be her in her wedding dress, although having seen the photo of her sister's wedding I tend to believe she'd have been in a more elaborate outfit with a decorative headpiece. I'll never know but it's still a great picture of Hilma as a young woman.<br />
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So why do I have an aka for Hilma? She is a Kiviniemi in every single Finnish record found, even those written in Swedish. My grandpa wrote a family tree and listed her as "Sten", which is Swedish for stone. So how did they get Stone from Kiviniemi? "Kivi" in Finnish means......you guessed it, stone. So it makes sense that Hilma adopted the Americanized version when she came to America. If her dad came to America I believe he probably lived as Benjamin Stone and perhaps started a 2nd family, just as Hilma's mother did. He is a ghost who may be destined to never be found.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mildred Jennie Phyllis, Porkos wife, Evelyn Ellen Hilma (seated) Burke</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hilma on the left. The other 2 woman are in quite a few photos but I have no idea who they are. If you do, please contact me!</td></tr>
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I still don't have Emil or Hilma's death certificates, but will be getting them next time I make a trip to Muskegon. From her record of funeral she passed away at the age of 91, 21 Sept 1970 in Muskegon of "gangrene of left foot". She was laid to rest next to Emil and their son Arthur at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13989903/hilma-johanna-burke" target="_blank">Oakwood Cemetery</a> in Muskegon.<br />
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I find it strange that my grandpa had her funeral card but not Emil's, as it's definitely something my grandpa would have kept. I know he went to Emil's funeral as his signature is in the funeral register.<br />
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I have several more blogs to write that are Hilma-related (so stay tuned). I have more photos, documents and memorabilia for her than any other 2nd great-grandparent. She only died a little under 7 years prior to my birth so was easily my last 2nd great-grandparent to pass. That said, I wish I had asked my grandpa more. He was obviously close with them, and even lived in Muskegon for a bit as a child. I've gotten wonderful help from his cousins and have a pretty decent picture of their life but I just wish I knew more. My dad remembers them both (he says Emil was so old he scared him) and that Hilma was always baking. In the color video she pushes her hair back and he told me he remembers she did that all the time. My grandma remembers that Emil had some sort of character that was a guy's head and he "smoked" a pipe (it blew bubbles) but Hilma hated that it depicted smoking and hid in the attic, in spite of Emil thinking it was hilarious. Stories like that can really complete the picture and I feel like I had ample opportunity to ask my grandpa more and just failed to do so.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-48527119845115963042019-06-22T18:47:00.001-07:002019-06-22T18:47:16.962-07:00"Guest" blog entry regarding the Burke familyI'll admit to being a touch lazy with this post but it's not because it's something I wasn't going to do. I have sorted through what I want to post about Hilma but I'm simply too tired to put the thought into posting it yet but I want to get a blog up this week so I'm posting this post early. <br />
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A couple of years ago I asked my grandpa's cousin Shelly to write her remembrances of Emil and Hilma. She's a published author and has an appreciation for family history so I figured she'd be willing and to date, is the <i>only </i>relative that I've asked to write memories that has actually come through for me. As stated in my blog about Emil I appreciate her help with the Burke family more than I'll ever be able to repay. I post this entry (as written <i>except I added the links for the bread recipes, that are undoubtedly not the same as what Shelly remembers</i>) with her blessing:<br />
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I don’t have a lot of memories of
Grandpa Burke, but I do remember he liked to sit on the royal blue
velvet couch just to the left of the front door in Grandma and
Grandpa’s living room. He’d look out the window onto the street
or sit on the front porch and people-watch. In his later years, he
slipped into dementia, and I remember my father trying to correct
Grandpa’s actions in Swedish. The only words I remember are <i>flicka
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Of course, my memories of Grandma are
from a child’s perspective. I loved her baked goods—delicious
frosted cinnamon rolls and <a href="https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/swedish-limpa-bread/" target="_blank">limpa</a> and bula breads. <a href="http://www.poorandpretty.com/2014/09/26/recipe-scandinavian-bulla-bread/" target="_blank">Sweet, white bula</a>
was my favorite. I loved to layer it with butter and eat slice after
slice as I followed Grandma around the kitchen. I was fascinated by
her huge flour bin that was built into the cabinets Grandpa had
built. I was almost as big as me and tilted outward into the room. My
mother and her friends didn't have anything like it. Mom always
measured flour out of a five pound bag with measuring cups. But
Grandma scooped flour out of the bin with her hands and threw it onto
the counter. From my perspective, Grandma’s baking was magical—she
didn't measure anything and simply added ingredients and mixed them
until they felt “right” in her hands. Her linoleum floor and
kitchen counters were always covered with a dusting of flour, and
Grandma’s house always smelled like yeasty fresh-baked bread. I
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Grandma was known to be tight with
money. One of her favorite phrases was “too much <i>penga, </i>or
money. But whenever I visited, Grandma would always give me a quarter
to buy candy at the dime store across the street. She always had pink
peppermints and anise candy in dishes around the house, but those
weren't my favorites. I couldn't wait to slip across the street
to buy a handful of Pixie Stix or a few candy necklaces, compliments
of her generosity.
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I also remembered that Grandma loved to
watch <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Humbard" target="_blank">Rex Humbard</a> on TV and send him occasional financial gifts. I’m
pretty sure my dad didn't have a high opinion of Rev. Humbard, and
he certainly didn't wants Grandma sending him her hard-earned
money. But it was important to her, and I remember her as a person
who cherished her Bible and hymnal. In her earlier days, she attended
one of the Swedish churches in Muskegon, and from what my dad has
told me, I believe she took her children to church there because she
believed it was important for them to know about the God of the Bible
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From the stories I've heard from my
dad and his siblings, Grandma wasn't a warm and fuzzy parent, but I
believe she loved her kids. I also believe she gave everything she
had to provide for them during the years of the depression—taking
in laundry and baking in order to provide extra income. I know things
weren't easy for her. And I believe she loved the indulgences that
came in later years from her grandchildren—like beautiful dresses
from my cousin Ruthann and gifts from her adult children, as well.</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>It was a
challenge for me to share my bedroom with Grandma when I was a
teenager. We didn't always see eye-to-eye on fashion or music or
dating. But I've never regretted that my parents cared for her in
our home. Their decision shaped my own caregiving choices and
commitment to care for others, in spite of the cost.</div>
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-21417201554091787662019-06-11T19:37:00.001-07:002020-07-27T01:09:58.626-07:00Emil Burke continuedI mentioned in my last blog that there was a lot to blog about regarding Emil and Hilma. I don't have as many items of Emil's to share as I do of Hilma, but there are still a couple items that are pretty neat. I also want to share more photos of Emil and even a couple <i>videos </i>of him.<br />
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These are notes from a blue notebook that Emil wrote as he studied to become a U.S. citizen. I didn't know he ever became a citizen so I need to find those documents still. I don't know when these were written but there were only 48 states at the time, given that he wrote that there were 96 senators. Other than his signature on the Social Security application from the previous blog, this is the only handwriting of Emil's that I have.<br />
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Emil was a cabinet maker and this is a little wooden box that Emil made. It's only about 10 inches long and about 2 inches high but it's nice to have a piece that he made by hand. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it but someday when I get the room I want to put my genealogy stuff in, it will have a place in the room.<br />
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Most of the photos I have of Emil and Hilma came from Paul Burke's daughter Shelly and I got some photos from Mildred Burke Thomas' grandson John. John has also sent me 2 of the 3 videos I have of them. Shelly has been a phenomenal genealogy connection (and a great person) who I've met with several times. I've never met John but he's also been a great contact. I can't thank either of them enough!<br />
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There are several Burke family group photos - this family loved to get together and photographed many of them. Many of these photos were in their daughter Ruth's possession and she would send copies that she labeled. My grandpa was in a few of them so it's nice to see that he stayed in contact with his mom's family.<br />
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This photo was probably taken in White Cloud and was provided by Melvin Burke, grandson of Emil's brother Herman. <i>Back row starting on the right is Elmer Burke, Judith Burke, Carl Burke on car bumper, Paul Burke, Hilma Burke, Emil Burke, Homer Fry, Edwin Burke, Sophia Burke, Alice Terwilliger Fry , unknown lady, unknown man. Front row starting on the right is Tura Burke, unknown girl, Herman Burke, Evelyn (Edwin wife) Burke. </i>In the back row on the left the unknown woman looks similar to a photo I've seen of Hilma's mother's sister Maria - if Emil's brother and his family that wouldn't make sense but......<br />
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Left to right (written by Ruth Burke Warren) - Paul Burke, Donald Maynard (Ruth's son), Paul's wife Phyllis, Emil, Hilma, Arnold Burke, Mildred Burke Thomas, Ruth Burke Warren, Ellen Burke Johnson and her husband Charles - behind Arnold his his wife Evelyn Trimmier Burke and their son Arnold Burke Jr. My grandma and grandpa are behind Ruth.<br />
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Al Delora (Jennie Burke's husband), Charles Johnson (Ellen Burke's husband), "Porko", Orville Thomas (Mildred Burke's husband), Carl, Emil and Arnold Burke.<br />
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This last photo disappoints me a bit since this was held at my grandpa's aunt Ellen's house, just a few blocks from where my grandparents lived and they aren't in the photo. I'll have to assume they were busy/out of town and that's why they didn't attend. Handwriting is again Ruth's.<br />
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"Porko" from the photos is Andrew Burk 1875-1949. He was born Anders Karlsson Porko in Finland, son of Greta Sofia Magdal Lillhonga and her 2nd husband Karl Johan Johansson Porko-Saarukka. Her 1st husband was Johan Johansson Björk, brother of Emil's mother. That means they weren't related but the families were obviously close.<br />
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This video is from Mildred's grandson John. Mildred and Orville are helping Emil with the puzzle.<br />
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This video was from my grandpa's old films. I'm not sure who took it since he and my grandma are in it.<br />
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The thing that has always struck me about Emil is that he <i>never went gray</i>. In the 2nd video he's 85-86 years old and still has jet black hair (and even his eyebrows).<br />
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Well, that's all I have for Emil - on to Hilma next.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-90521116234188060642019-06-08T20:30:00.004-07:002019-06-20T16:47:31.152-07:00Anders Emil Andersson Hällis - Emil BurkeI've been debating how I want to blog about Emil and Hilma, my grandpa's mother's parents. Due to my grandpa having a few items and several helpful descendants of Emil and Hilma, I have a ton of photos, documents and other items for both of them. I'll just see where this goes. 😀<br />
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Anders Emil Andersson Hällis was born 14 Aug and christened 18 Aug 1872 at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokkola" target="_blank">Gamlakarleby, Finland</a>,
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His siblings included:<br />
<i>Edla Sofia </i>(1871-1949)<br />
<i>Ester Elin </i>(1878-1894)<br />
<i>Leander Herman </i>(1880-1881)<br />
<i>Johan Herman </i>(1881-1937)<br />
<i>Anna Irene</i> (1883-1908)<br />
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There are some good resources available online for Finnish research which I could write an entire blog about but I do need to mention a few sites including <a href="https://www.sukuhistoria.fi/sshy/index_eng.htm" target="_blank">The Finnish Family History Association</a>, of which I've become a member, the <a href="http://hiski.genealogia.fi/hiski?en" target="_blank">HisKi project</a> and <a href="http://finlander.genealogia.fi/" target="_blank">The Finlander Forum</a>. I was given a family tree many years ago that took the family generations back but didn't have any documentation. I began asking questions at the Finlander Forum and the people there are <i>so incredibly willing to help. </i>There is a woman named June Pelo, that is in her mid 90s but extremely active helping people discover their Finnish roots. She pointed me in the direction of Alan Maki, who is very fluent in finding records and has been a massive help to me as well. Most of the records available online are church records such as these that were found for Emil's family. </div>
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The Finnish are very interested in what happened to the Finns that left Finland and their descendants. I've not found the same level of interest with my Dutch, Swedish or German ancestry but the Finns seem to genuinely have interest. I mentioned Alan earlier - he found Emil's record of obtaining a passport to leave Finland and the ship log for his arrival for me. Emil obtained his passport 6 Apr 1896 and listed his destination as America. </div>
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Emil left Finland on the SS "Bothnia" via Liverpool on 16 Apr 1896 and arrived in Boston Massachusetts 10 days later, 26 Apr 1896. His name is spelled wrong as Emil "Halles" and his residence spelled "Sockan" instead of Såka. He lists his destination as White Cloud Michigan. His mother's brother Karl came to America and then summoned for his nephews Herman and Emil. Herman followed Emil, arriving 20 May 1899 in New York. They were all involved in lumbering in the White Cloud area. </div>
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I don't know when Emil changed his last name to Burke but it was an Americanized version of his mother's surname Björk (which matched his uncle who I assume he was quite close to). My grandpa told me that Emil thought Hällis sounded too much like Hell so he changed it. I know it was changed by 5 Dec 1899 when Emil married Hilma Johanna Benjaminsdotter Kiviniemi at Ashland Wisconsin. I do not know why Emil and Hilma were in Ashland, other than that is where Hilma's sister Anna and her husband Erick Newman made their home. Anna and Erick married 12 May 1900 at Ashland so weren't married when Emil and Hilma married.</div>
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What is interesting is that a marriage bann was found for Emil and Hilma 6 Mar 1901 in Finnish records. When Alan sent it to me he told me it's the "1st time ever" that he's found a marriage record with the woman's name written first. Not sure the significance of that either but it's apparently unusual. 2 records above Emil and Hilma's record here is the bann of her sister Anna. They also didn't marry in Finland so unsure why this is recorded like this. </div>
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<i>Ellen Irene</i> 1900-1992 (married Charles Johnson), adopted son David Lee Johnson 1930-2018.</div>
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<i>Jennie Johanna</i> 1902-1985 (married Alfred DeLora), sons Jack, Kenneth and Roger (all deceased).</div>
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<i>Elmer Evald </i>1903-1926 (died single of tuberculosis, which was a scourge of the Burke family).</div>
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<i>Arnold Walfred</i> 1905-1992 (married Evelyn Trimmier), son Arnold 1931-2001.</div>
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<i>Anna Elizabeth </i>1907-1953 (my great-grandmother - subject of her own blogs)</div>
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<i>Ruth Esther</i> 1911-1999 (married Archie Maynard), 1 living son. Remarried to George Warren.</div>
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<i>Carl Emil</i> 1914-1997 (married Helen Doppel), 4 sons and 1 daughter - 3 still living</div>
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<i>Mildred Marie</i> 1916-1987 (married Orvil Thomas), 2 sons and 1 daughter - 1 still living</div>
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<i>Paul Edwin</i> 1921-2016 (married Phyllis Stewart), 1 son and 1 daughter, both living.</div>
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By 1910 the family was living in Wilcox Township, Newaygo County MI.
Hilma listed that she had given birth to 6 children, all still living.
Emil listed his occupation as farmer (which I wasn't expecting since I
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In 1920 they are living at 563 Wood Avenue in Muskegon, Muskegon County MI. He and Hilma list their mother tongue as Swedish (no surprise there). He's listed as a "machine hand" doing wood working. Interesting to see that his 3 eldest children are also employed, down to the 16 year old working as a "grinder" in a machine shop. Times sure are different.<br />
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In 1930 they are still living in Muskegon, still listed on Wood St but now at 1751 Wood St. Emil built this home. They now state that they spoke Finnish before coming to America. Emil lists his occupation as cabinet maker and I think it says "school furniture" after that.<br />
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On 2 Dec 1936 Emil applied for Social Security, listing E.H. Sheldon & Co. as his employer and absolutely giving no thought to the names of his parents. This is the only signature of Emil's that I've been able to find, although I do have more writing that I'll share in the next blog.</td>
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In 1940 they are still living at the home on Wood Street, with son Paul being the only child still at home. Emil is 67 and still listed a cabinet maker for "School Furn Mfg". According to <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2011/08/looking_back_eh_sheldon_co_fac.html" target="_blank">this article</a>, the E.H. Sheldon Co was a leading manufacturer of vocational school equipment. Neat to see a photo of the factory that Emil worked in for so many years.<br />
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I don't know the context of this photo but Emil is 3rd from the left and on the back is written "Pa was 71yrs old + still working".<br />
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In 1949 Emil and Hilma celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The clipping was given to me by my grandpa. I assume it's from the Muskegon Chronicle but I don't know what date. The photo is an 8x10 and was hanging in Emil and Hilma's son Paul's home.<br />
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My grandpa gave me the photo on the left - it's dated 3 Nov 1952 but I don't know what the occasion was. The picture on the right is labeled 1955. There are no other photos that show Emil older that I'm aware of.<br />
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I don't yet have Emil's death certificate but I do have his record of funeral. He passed away 26 May 1963 in Hackley Hospital in Muskegon, having reached the age of 90 years. His cause of death on this document is a chronic urinary infection. My grandpa's cousin Shelly was 8 when he passed and remembers him but said he was suffering from dementia and she never knew him when he was in his right mind. He was laid to rest at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13989881/emil-anders-burke" target="_blank">Oakwood Cemetery</a> in Muskegon, next to his sons Arthur and Elmer who died of tuberculosis when younger. Hilma joined him in 1970.<br />
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This copy of his obituary was found in his funeral book, which was given to me as well. There are quite a few more photos and other odds and ends I want to share about Emil but this is probably a good place to stop this entry. Stay tuned.........</div>
Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-48378661258768942482019-06-02T18:39:00.000-07:002019-06-02T18:40:14.543-07:00A couple more letters regarding AnnaMy next post was going to start my posts regarding Anna's parents, my 2nd great-grandparents Emil and Hilma Burke. I have the glorious "problem" of having too many pictures, letters and other items regarding them for me to even know where I'm going to start. Unlike most of my ancestors I've blogged about, I'm probably going to have to have multiple blogs for both.<br />
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Today I was organizing some letters and came upon 2 letters regarding Anna that I've had for 2.5 years and apparently didn't read through very well. I was surprised to see Anna's cause of death was cancer when I finally got her death certificate. After reading her letter to her sisters Ruth and Mildred in Lansing MI I should have already known it. She talks about pain she's had in her breast for 4 years, although the last 6-8 months it really bothered her so she went to the doctor and had surgery scheduled. <br />
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Forgive the order of the pages (in this and the following letter). This was written in December of 1952 and the paper that was used isn't something I could easily scan in order.<br />
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This letter was written by Anna's sister Ellen (Burke) Johnson to her sister Ruth (Burke) Warren. Much of the letter is regarding Anna ("Annie") and her issues. Ellen seems to be the one that's trying to get Anna placed somewhere to be cared for. She's concerned that Anna is going to end up in a convalescent home at a cost of $100/month. She writes that all Anna wants is nerve pills, pain pills and cigarettes and that she's not eating enough. It almost sounds like they'd get her placed and she'd find a way to get out.<br />
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Both of their parents were still living, albeit elderly (and living in Muskegon - Ellen was in Grand Rapids, just a few blocks from my grandpa, Anna's only child). Obviously my grandpa must not have been handling things with his mother and he never mentioned her illness. He would have had a 2 year old and an infant at home at the time of this letter. I wonder now if when my grandma describes Anna "swinging around" the baby in the room if it wasn't pain pills, not alcohol. It sounds like her cancer would have been pretty advanced by this point. I'm not sure who "Otto" is that Ellen references, but Anna was allegedly still married to Stanley Ratajczak at this time. How sad to think that she died with virtually nobody wanting to take her or help her. Was this due to her causing problems? Burning bridges? I'll obviously never know but the more I learn about the end of Anna's life, the worse I feel for her. None of my other ancestors have as sad a story as Anna apparently did. I hope and pray she's at peace.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-66496389847531360812019-05-27T11:53:00.000-07:002019-05-27T11:53:11.561-07:00Anna's post-divorce letters to her sonMy grandpa gave me 4 letters that his mother wrote to him, 2 from Dec 1937, 1 from May 1938 and 1 from Jul 1938. I debated what, if anything, to share from these. I decided that I'd share the 1st 2 because the scans turned out better and I think they really give some insight into how "off" her thinking must have been during this time. <br />
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It's striking that she wrote him on 12/13 and asked him why he hadn't wrote her, acknowledging that she hadn't written him either. She then says she figures his dad's put him against her and then pressures him to spend Christmas with her - he's only 11 years old. She writes him the <i>next day</i> saying she looked for a letter from him but that she guessed that he hadn't had long enough. You think?<br />
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She's writing him in Muskegon, telling him to tell grandma and grandpa (Hilma and Emil) hi and to let them know she's doing ok. My grandpa said he bounced between his aunt's homes and attended the <a href="https://muskegonpublicschools.org/moon-elementary/" target="_blank">Moon School</a> in Muskegon so if he was living in Muskegon within months of the divorce then his dad must have really decided he couldn't care for him. I'm not sure which aunt lived on Jarman St.<br />
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-20800116650776091922019-05-26T18:57:00.000-07:002019-06-08T14:35:36.572-07:00Anna Burke - the black sheep of the familyPicking up where I left off - the last grandparent on my dad's side that I haven't written about. As you read in my blog about my <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/05/nicholas-korstange-i-wish-i-knew-more.html" target="_blank">grandpa's dad Nicholas</a>, Anna had her problems. That doesn't mean I shouldn't write about her - perhaps it's more reason to document what I know.<br />
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Anna Elizabeth Burke was born 22 May 1907 at White Cloud, Newaygo County Michigan. I don't have her birth certificate but following the path of her parents I have no reason to believe she wasn't born there. She was the 5th of 10 children born to Emil and Hilma (Stone) Burke. She had the following siblings:<br />
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<i>Ellen Irene </i>1900-1992 (married Charles Johnson), adopted son David Lee Johnson 1930-2018.<br />
<i>Jennie Johanna </i>1902-1985 (married Alfred DeLora), sons Jack, Kenneth and Roger (all deceased).<br />
<i>Elmer Evald </i>1903-1926 (died single of tuberculosis, which was a scourge of the Burke family).<br />
<i>Arnold Walfred </i>1905-1992 (married Evelyn Trimmier), son Arnold 1931-2001.<br />
<i>Arthur Wilhelm </i>1909-1933 (died single of tuberculosis).<br />
<i>Ruth Esther </i>1911-1999 (married Archie Maynard), 1 living son. Remarried to George Warren.<br />
<i>Carl Emil </i>1914-1997 (married Helen Doppel), 4 sons and 1 daughter - 3 still living<br />
<i>Mildred Marie </i>1916-1987 (married Orvil Thomas), 2 sons and 1 daughter - 1 still living<br />
<i>Paul Edwin </i>1921-2016 (married Phyllis Stewart), 1 son and 1 daughter, both living.<br />
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I talked about the lack of photos of Anna and her 1st husband Nicholas or her son Jerry but in reality, there just haven't been that many pics of her found. Most of the pics of her came from albums that her brother Paul had (that I assume came from his parents) when she was a little kid.<br />
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My grandpa had a couple of photos of Anna that appear to have come from his uncle Jim's photo albums. In the <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/05/nicholas-korstanges-california-adventure.html" target="_blank">blog about my great-grandpa's journal</a> I wrote that there was a Florence Herrick. There was also a Frances Vernon. Anna had an apparently good friend Florence "Sue" Vernon. I'm not sure if that is who is in these photos but it's a guess.<br />
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After her divorce from my great-grandpa, Anna found love again with Stanley Ratajczak, marrying 19 Aug 1939 at Wyoming, Kent County Michigan. My grandpa never spoke of his stepdad and my grandma doesn't even recall ever meeting Stanley, which is odd since he and Anna were married 14 years before her death.<br />
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As you read in my blog about my great-grandpa, Anna had problems with alcohol. My grandma only remembers seeing Anna a handful of times, the last time shortly after my dad was born. She was drunk and was swinging the baby all over the room. I don't know what fueled Anna's alcoholism. To my knowledge none of the other Burke family members had issues with alcohol, but of course that's not something that's kept out in the open. I have heard rumbles of sexual abuse. Emil and his brother Herman came to Michigan from Finland to follow their mother's brother "uncle Charlie". I met with a son of one of Anna's 1st cousins several years ago and he said his mother absolutely "hated that man". It's not the 1st time I've heard rumblings that he may have been inappropriate with the girls in the family. It's just a guess and I'll never know. </div>
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I always figured that Anna's alcoholism is what killed her but upon ordering her death certificate I was surprised to learn that she died of lung cancer that had metastasized to the brain, ovary and adrenal glands. She died in "Rural Grand Rapids Twp" after a 6 week stay in the "Kent Co. General Hospital" at the age of 46. I've posted in a Facebook group about Grand Rapids history to try to figure out where the heck this hospital was and nobody seems to know. I'm just surprised to find that it wasn't liver disease of some sort that killed her. </div>
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So I blogged about my great-grandpa <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/05/nicholas-korstange-i-wish-i-knew-more.html" target="_blank">Nicholas Korstange</a> on the 12th. Some of what I wrote about his death was from my dad's recollection. I wrote he was in the hospital a few days after his accident but the death certificate says it was 2 weeks. It tells me he died of respitory (sic) failure and that 6 days prior to his death he had a "pulmonary embolus". </div>
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Something that has always struck me as odd with Nicholas got even more odd upon reading this. His funeral card lists that he was buried at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/254/chapel-hill-memorial-gardens" target="_blank">Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens</a>. Since his obituary didn't list a place of burial I went there and scoured their records but of course, didn't find him there. My grandpa ended up telling me he was at the church memorial garden. The death certificate would have led me to believe he was at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1544/rosedale-memorial-park" target="_blank">Rosedale Memorial Park</a>. I simply don't understand the confusion surrounding his final disposition but to find an official document that's incorrect and a funeral card that's incorrect (but in a different way) is something I've not run into before.</div>
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I had no intention of blogging tonight but I have to document a follow-up to (2) ancestor blogs due to a new (beta) feature at ancestry.com. Ancestry has released ThruLines, which (in my layman's terms) appears to take your DNA matches and your online tree and match them together in a much easier way to interpret. You click your ancestor and it shows you DNA matches and how they match your tree. More on that a little further in the blog.<br />
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In the past, people that you matched DNA with in low amounts were very hard to find a connection. Now they take those connections and shared ancestors and lay them out for you <i>AND </i>if there's a DNA match and you're missing an ancestor, they give you a "potential" to click on and compare. Obviously this is only as good as the information in the DNA match's tree (and I've found a couple that are blatantly wrong).<br />
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Where I'm intrigued is a couple of brick walls on my paternal grandma's side. I blogged at length about her <a href="https://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-old-is-this-man-and-where-did-he.html" target="_blank">great-grandfather Clarence Perkins</a> and how his parentage absolutely mystified me. I then wrote <a href="https://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2018/03/now-were-getting-somewheremaybe-sigh.html" target="_blank">a follow-up blog</a> that in my mind proves who his mother is but adds even more questions about his father. And then ThruLines came along..........<br />
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I added Clarence's "potential" father into my tree as though he is the father, and his "potential" siblings and their descendants as well. My grandma matches DNA with <u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">NINE</u>, count them <u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">NINE</u> descendants of William Lathrop! If she only matched one or two, I'd be skeptical but nine? I find it ridiculously difficult to believe that she's not descended from William at this point.<br />
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Another DNA ThruLines discovery that solves a potential mystery for me - my grandma's paternal grandmother was born out of wedlock. When I <a href="https://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/03/last-post-i-wrote-about-my-great.html" target="_blank">blogged about her</a>, I mentioned that when her mother married Bernardus Kock (Cook) she was "legitimized". I then did a ThruLines for Bernardus and lo and behold, my grandma matches DNA with descendants of Bernardus' brother. If Bernardus wasn't the father of Margaret, how is my grandma matching DNA with those descendants?<br />
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I still don't understand most of the science behind DNA testing but I do know that it is going to be a genealogy game-changer (if it isn't already) and it's proving it's worth quite regularly now. I can't wait to see what else I stumble on as the testing/technology get better and more people test.<br />
<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-54730717253625809562019-05-12T12:56:00.002-07:002019-05-12T12:56:48.320-07:00Nicholas Korstange's California adventureI'm trying to keep all of the information about each ancestor in one blog but I figured posting the 15 pages of this journal in the last blog would have made it too long (it was already longer than I anticipated).<br />
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My grandpa's half-brother shared this journal with me and although it's nothing too exciting, it is his observations of his almost 9 month adventure that he took when he was 22/23 years old.<br />
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I find this journal interesting but I did find something potentially of genealogical interest. On the last pages Nicholas has an "address book" of sorts. On the last page he's listed a Florence Herrick with an address of 1752 Wood St in Muskegon Michigan. The house at 1751 Wood St in Muskegon Michigan was built by Emil Burke, father of Anna Burke that Nicholas married. He was carrying the name of the girl that lived across the street from his future wife, 3 years before their marriage. I'm not sure what his connection to Muskegon is but that's undoubtedly how he met Anna.<br />
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-64953035927189756212019-05-12T08:21:00.000-07:002019-05-12T08:42:15.111-07:00Nicholas Korstange - I wish I knew moreWhen writing about my grandma's family I started with her parents and worked my way back. I couldn't do that for my grandpa's family because I know very little about either of his parents. Most of what I know about Nicholas comes from the "paper trail" I've found while researching, inserting little things my grandpa told me along the way.<br />
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When I was born I had 5 living great-grandparents. My paternal grandma's <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/05/my-birthday-buddy-my-great-grandpa-nick.html" target="_blank">dad</a> and <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-oldest-person-ive-ever-known-my.html" target="_blank">mom</a> lived until I was 18 and 25 respectively, so I knew them quite well. Both of my mom's grandmothers were alive, her mom's mom died when I was 5 and her dad's mom died when I was 9. I remember her dad's mom (vaguely) and although I don't remember her mom's mom, there are several photos of us together. I have photos with 4 of the 5 that were living when I was born........guess what one I don't have? Yep, my grandpa Korstange's dad, who died when I was 5. My dad remembers little of his grandpa and my grandpa said very little about his dad (and even less about his mom). I'm not writing this to say that Nicholas was a bad guy because he wasn't. Circumstances created a situation where there wasn't much contact and it saddens me how little I know about someone that could have been a huge person in my life. I've asked my grandpa's half-brother to write his recollections and hope that someday he can do that for me and my children. I want to know about him and I want my kids to know about him too.<br />
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So what do I know? My grandpa told me that Nicholas was born at Lucas, Missaukee Co MI 19 Oct 1903. He was the 4th of 5 children born to <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/04/jan-korstanje-my-most-direct-immigrant.html" target="_blank">Jan Korstanje</a> and <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/05/jeltje-jennie-van-der-ploeg-korstanje.html" target="_blank">Jeltje van der Ploeg</a>. In spite of Michigan birth records being available at familysearch.org after 110 years, I haven't been able to find his birth record to prove it. I'm not in a hurry to drive to Missaukee County to look for a record that may or may not exist, especially given that it will probably be available online eventually. He lists his birth as Cadillac (Wexford County) on his 1st marriage and as Wexford County on his 2nd. Lucas isn't far from Wexford County so it's plausible. I am confident he wasn't born in Kent County.<br />
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I have a fair share of photos of Nicholas as a young man from the albums that his brother James had. This picture was in my grandpa's possession and I'm glad I scanned it because I'm not sure where the original is. This is from his 8th grade graduation - I don't know what school. Nicholas is 2nd from the left in the 2nd row from the top. The family picture on his dad Jan's blog shows Nicholas as a baby - this is the next photo of him chronologically by age.<br />
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He looks like a pretty typical teenager of that era to me. In this 2nd photo he's in a plane that has a sign that says "JOIN THE NAVY", which is interesting because I find no record that he ever registered for WWI or WWII. He'd have been too young for WWI but I would have expected one for WWII.<br />
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From 26 Aug 1923 thru 3 May 1924 Nicholas hopped a train and traveled to California, keeping a journal during the trip. I'll blog that journal next in the interest of space for this blog.<br />
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On 19 Dec 1925 at Grand Rapids Nicholas married Anna Burke. I know nothing about how they met or where they married and there are no photos of their wedding. To be honest, there's only one photo of Nicholas and Anna together, that appears to have been taken the summer/fall prior to their wedding. There are no photos of them together with their son, my grandpa, who was born 25 Oct 1926 at Grand Rapids.<br />
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The city directories available at Ancestry.com have Nick and Anna at 621 Fairview Ave NE in 1927 and 2687 Alpine Ave NW for 1928 and 1929. My grandpa never mentioned either of these addresses (which makes sense given he'd have been 3 in 1929). It would appear that both of these houses are no longer in existence. These contradict the address my grandpa thought he was born at.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">In the 3 Apr 1930 census of Plainfield Township, Kent Co MI, Nick, Anna and Morris are enumerated in house #75 (the census taker failed here and didn't write the street name down for the entire 1-76 that I looked at). My guess is that they were living at 709 Rudy St NE, as that's where my grandpa said he was born and there are a couple of photos of him as a child with this written on them. Nicholas is listed as a shipping clerk in a furniture factory, which I believe was </span><a href="http://www.furniturecityhistory.org/company/3916/williamskimp-furniture-co" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">Williams-Kimp Furniture Company</a><span style="text-align: center;">, which my grandpa mentioned and who sent flowers to Jan Korstanje's funeral in '45.</span><br />
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Writing about the lack of pictures of Nicholas and Anna together and realizing that the photo above is the only photo of my grandpa with his dad as a child and that there are <i style="font-weight: bold;">NO</i> photos of my grandpa with his mom (at any age) just saddens me. I know Nicholas and Anna did not have a happy marriage but they were married for 11 years so it's shocking to consider that nothing survived. I get that both of them probably threw photos away (if they existed) but one would think that Anna would have kept photos of her and her son. It was less shocking after I read their divorce papers, from their divorce 9 Aug 1937, which paints Anna in a not so flattering light. My grandpa said <i>very</i> little about his mom, and I will blog about her soon, but even knowing he had virtually no relationship didn't prepare me for what I read about her philandering ways. That may be a strong term given no actual proof of physical infidelity but given what's written here, that's my guess. When I talked about circumstances and Nicholas, this man put up with 8 years of his wife drinking and running around with other men and ended up divorced with full custody of a 10 year old boy during the Great Depression.<br />
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<i>For the record, I debated whether to post the divorce papers or not. I decided that since nobody involved in the divorce is still living and nobody in my direct family has any memory of Anna that I would do so. I've stated before that genealogy isn't just about the good and that sugar-coating stuff doesn't do anything any justice. I will always respect privacy but in this case I don't believe there's a privacy case to make.</i><br />
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Nicholas found love again, marrying Lois Violet Rubringer, who was 12 years his junior on 3 Sep 1938 at Grand Rapids. His brother James signed for him and her sister Dorothy for her. I knew Lois and she was always sweet to me. She had to have been a good woman, taking on an 11 year old stepson as her own. She and Nick had 2 children together as well, giving my grandpa 2 half-siblings. Given his age when his 2nd and 3rd children were born and his physical job combined with my grandpa being out of the house in WWII and coming home and marrying and starting a family it created a situation where there was a bit of a separation. I only say this as an "outsider looking in" but I do feel that my grandpa's relationship with his dad wasn't what he would have wanted it to be. Again......circumstances.<br />
One great thing that came out of this is that my grandma was babysitting my grandpa's half-sister when he came back from the war, and that's when they met.<br />
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In 1940 Nick, Lois and Jerry are living at 451 Webster St NW, Nick still working as a shipping clerk in a furniture factory (again, I believe Williams-Kimp).<br />
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In 1942 Nick was a member of the Grand Rapids Police Auxillary Police Force. In the missing steamer trunk that I've referenced several times this paperwork and certificate were there with the baton Nick carried. It's not a flattering picture of me but it's a good photo of the baton. On the 1st page it references a picture ID but I don't recall seeing that in the trunk. He lists his address as 451 Webster St NW, which jives with the city directories from 1940 and 1941. The city directories from 1948-1954 list his address as 1534 Cole Ave NE and that jives with my grandpa's separation from the Navy 21 May 1946 in which he lists the Cole address.<br />
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I don't know where Nick ended up retiring from or when and I don't know anything about what he did in retirement. He passed away a few days after a car accident that he and Lois got into while on their way to their cottage on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hess_Lake" target="_blank">Hess Lake</a>. He was driving their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Chevette" target="_blank">Chevette</a> and ran a stop sign and was t-boned. He ended up at <a href="https://www.mercyhealth.com/location/20_Mercy_Health_Saint_Marys" target="_blank">Saint Mary's Hospital</a> for a few days. My grandpa said he was bruised from head to foot. My dad remembers being told that he was going to be coming home and then he passed away before he could be released, on 23 Oct 1981 at the age of 78. My dad remembers that when my grandma visited him he said "you have to suffer before you die". Perhaps he knew that he wasn't going to survive his injuries. At the time of his death he and Lois were living at 2022 Melita Ave NE. He was cremated and his <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13996126/nicholas-john-korstange" target="_blank">ashes scattered</a> in the memorial garden at his church, <a href="http://standrewsgr.org/" target="_blank">St. Andrew's Episcopal</a>. Lois survived him for 29 years, passing away at the age of 94 in 2010 and her ashes are also at the church.<br />
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I know I started this blog by stating I wish I knew more and then I wrote <i>a lot</i>. I guess what I mean is that this ancestor is someone that hasn't been passed away <i>that long ago</i>. I've written (and have more to write) blogs about people that there is nobody that I know alive that personally knew the subject of the writing. In this case there are quite a few people that knew him and yet I had to put his life story together based on documents and a couple of snippets, as though he died in the 1920s or something. As my direct Korstange ancestor I just wish I had more details about who he really was, not just what the paper trail says. I hope that makes sense. :)<br />
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-2047651653389541162019-05-08T20:31:00.001-07:002019-05-08T20:33:16.502-07:00Ettje Heeringa van der Ploeg, another great-grandparent of my grandpaWell, 2 blogs in one day. I don't expect that to happen much but I was prepared to write this one when my last blog popped into my head. After several years of not blogging at all I'll take a 2 blog day.<br />
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On my dad's side I've blogged about my grandfather's <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/04/jan-korstanje-my-most-direct-immigrant.html" target="_blank">grandpa</a> and <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/05/jeltje-jennie-van-der-ploeg-korstanje.html" target="_blank">grandma</a> and decided to blog about his <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/04/after-blogging-about-jan-korstanje-i.html" target="_blank">paternal grandfather's father</a> because I have a photo of him. I decided that I should probably blog about his paternal grandmother's mother for the same reason.<br />
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Ettje Sjoerds Heeringa was born 8 Jan 1834 at Ee, Friesland Netherlands, the 2nd of 6 children of<br />
Sjoerd Tjeerds Heeringa (1806-1848) and Folkjen Ruurds Nicolai (1806-1846). She had the following siblings:<br />
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<i>Tjeerd Sjoerds Heeringa </i>(1832-1866)<br />
<i>Ale Sjoerds Heeringa</i> (1836-1922)<br />
<i>Pieter Sjoerds Heeringa </i>(1838–1915)<br />
<i>Baukje Sjoerds Heeringa </i>(1841–1907)<br />
<i>Sake Sjoerds Heeringa </i>(1844–1853)<br />
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Tjeerd married Jantje Jans Sloot and had 3 children.<br />
Baukje had no children but married Ale de Bruin.<br />
Ale married Stijntje van der Pijp and had no children.<br />
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The only descendants of Sjoerd Heeringa and Folkjen Nicolai come from Ettje and her brother Pieter.<br />
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Her brother Pieter had 6 children, 3 that came to America:<br />
<i>Attje Pieters Heeringa </i>(1862-1913) who married Jan de Jong and had 10 children. Lived in Missaukee Co MI.<br />
<i>Jacob Pieters Heeringa </i>(1866-1950) who married Bessie Vanderweide and had 7 children. Also lived in Missaukee Co MI.<br />
<i>Ettje Pieters Heeringa </i>(1877-1965) who married Eeltje Terpstra and had 4 children. Her husband died in the Netherlands and she appears to have joined her children here in America in 1949.<br />
Pieter also had a son Sjoerd Pieters Heeringa who had a son <i>Wieberen "William George" Heeringa</i> 1886-1955) who married Effie van der Werf and had 4 children. He came to America in 1928 and settled in Kent Co MI.<br />
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Ettje married Jan Folkerts van der Ploeg (1827-1879) 16 May 1861 at Dongeradeel, Friesland Netherlands. Jan Folkerts was the son of Folkert Willems van der Ploeg (1789-1863) and Jeltje Joukes Jouksma (1790-1830).<br />
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As I wrote in the blog about my <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/05/jeltje-jennie-van-der-ploeg-korstanje.html" target="_blank">grandpa's grandmother</a>, Jan Folkerts and Ettje had 2 daughters, Jeltje (1871-1918) and Folkje (1867-1941). They arrived in America aboard the ship "Obdam" 15 Apr 1893.<br />
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In 1900 she's enumerated as "Effie Heeringa", living with her daughter Folkje and son in law Jan Gerbens van der Woude. They are living at 513 North Lafayette, listed as Grand Rapids Township (although that address is well within the actual city limits).<br />
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11 May 1907 Ettje's son-in-law Jan Gerbens passed away, the only death she endured here in America<br />
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In 1910 she's with her daughter Folkje's family as Etta VanderPloege. They live in the 800 block of North Union (unreadable number) again in Grand Rapids Township, even though the address is actually in the city.<br />
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Ettje passed away of cerebral apoplexy (stroke) 21 Nov 1917 at Blendon Township, Ottawa County Michigan and is laid to rest in an unmarked grave at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20849294" target="_blank">Borculo Cemetery</a> nearby. Her daughter Folkje is buried next to her with her second husband Anne Machiela, who was the informant on Ettje's death certificate. Given how many immigrant death certificates I've looked over, I am impressed by the recollection of her parent's names. Her birth date is completely butchered though, as nothing can be perfect!<br />
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This photo was given to me by John Rauser, youngest son of Ida. His sister Virginia was Ida's 1st child, born in 1914. Given how old she appears I'd say this photo was taken in the summer of 1917, just months prior to Ettje's death. It is the only known photo of Ettje and I was given a copy in time to show my grandpa a picture of his great-grandmother that he'd never seen before. For that, I'll forever be thankful to John Rauser, who probably doesn't know how important his help was to me.<br />
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A couple of interesting points about Folkje's family:<br />
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Folkje's youngest child with Jan Gerbens Vander Woude was Otto, born 4 Nov 1898. He had a twin sister Jennie who was married thrice and passed away 24 May 1988 as Mrs. Menno Dykema. Otto passed away 23 Jan 2000 due to complications from a stroke he suffered <b>16 years prior</b>. He lived to be 101 years old but was wheelchair-bound and unable to speak those last 16 years.<br />
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Folkje remarried to Anne Machiela (1865-1949) and had one son Richard (1911-1992). Richard married Bertha Lievense (1909-2005) and what's interesting to me here is that I'm not only related to Richard but also to Bertha. Her mother was Effie Siersema, daughter of Henderik Siersema and Bertha Kapenga. Henderik was the son of Albert Siersema and Tryntje Dogger. I wrote about the Siersema <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-siersema-farm.html" target="_blank">farm</a> and <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-siersemas-secondhand-bible_21.html" target="_blank">Bible</a> as Albert and Tryntje were my 4th great-grandparents. To muddy the waters even further, Bertha Kapenga's grandfather Jemme Albert's Kapenga was a brother of Albert Siersema's mother Catharina Alberts Siersema (so she married her cousin and I'm directly related to both Henderik and Bertha). So much intertwining...........<br />
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Folkje's eldest daughter Ettje "Etta" (1891-1967) married Matthew Vander Boegh (1891-1964). In my grandpa's uncle Jim's photo albums there were a couple of photos of Etta. My grandpa didn't seem to know anything about his great-aunt Folkje or any of his dad's 1st cousins (Vander Woude or Machiela) but obviously there was contact between the families as Etta was in photos taken by her cousin Jim.<br />
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My great-grandfather Nicholas Korstange, who I plan to write about next, was allegedly (I need to track down the birth record to prove it) born at Lucas, Missaukee County Michigan. To have him born in Missaukee County made absolutely no sense to me when my grandpa told me. His parents lived and died in Kent County and his random birth there wasn't something that I could figure out, until I started researching Ettje's family. Given that she had a niece and nephew settle in Missaukee County, 1st cousins of Nicholas' mother Jeltje it's plausible he was born on a visit north.<br />
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Folkje's 1st born child Gerben Jans "Gerrit" Vander Woude and his son John Simon were killed when his delivery truck was struck by a train 4 Oct 1924.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-56985715703309940512019-05-08T13:57:00.000-07:002019-05-08T13:57:33.198-07:00A childhood memoryI'm going to deviate from my regular blogging a second. <br />
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Ever hear a song and get transported to another time or place? Clint Black sings in "State of Mind":<br />
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<i>Ain't it funny how a melody can bring back a memory</i><br />
<i>Take you to another place in time</i><br />
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I've had this happen to me a few times in my life, usually when driving north to go to deer camp. My dad's dad used to bring me up north as a teenager and he'd listen to country music, which I grew to like. Now when I'm going up there if I kick on country music I sometimes feel like I'm in my grandpa's F-150 heading to Baldwin. Those experiences aren't the point of my writing today, just to say it's happened before.<br />
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The other day I was at work and had my iPad playing music quietly in the background. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq3hEMUeBGQ" target="_blank">"Centerfield" by John Fogerty</a> started playing. I was half listening until they got to the part where he says "I'm ready to play, today" - the couple of claps that happen between play and today instantly (and only momentarily) took me back to Tiger Stadium with my mom's dad. <br />
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I vividly remember going with my maternal grandpa on bus trips to see the Tigers at Tiger Stadium. They were retiree bus trips so with the exception of a few grandchildren it was mostly older people. They may have been retirees from Rapistan, where he retired from but I'm not 100% sure. I have stubs for 7 different dates from 1988-1991, although there may have been more games. There are so many things about these trips that I remember, like Johnny Grubb hitting a home run off my seat when we were in the bathroom because my grandpa hated him and decided his at bat would be a good one to go to the bathroom, my grandpa's brother's grandson getting a ball that Cecil Fielder hit because he was in the corner of right field chasing a pigeon, etc. <br />
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The song though.......I remember getting to the stadium early and walking out from the concourse to watch batting practice. The sound of the crack of the bat and the "smack" of the ball into the player's gloves as they played catch were amazing but <i>that song always seemed to be playing as we walked out and saw the field for the first time</i>. The "claps" that I referred to earlier echoed through the whole stadium and literally would give me chills. My grandpa instilled such a love of baseball in me and that auditory memory will stay with me until the day I die. I'd give anything to experience it just once more but Comerica Park (although a fine ballpark) will never compare and I don't have my grandpa to take me.<br />
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-53127796463535179602019-04-26T17:01:00.001-07:002019-04-27T17:57:08.204-07:00Janus KorstanjeAfter blogging about <a href="https://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/04/jan-korstanje-my-most-direct-immigrant.html?fbclid=IwAR0ZtS7FKBQe2H1_xC2KtSpKC1wYC8VBLHBiPmbBNpy-f7dGbwvIYh3XqIE" target="_blank">Jan Korstanje</a>, I decided that I should blog about his father since I have a photo of him.<br />
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This photo came from my grandpa's half-sister. The back is mislabeled as Nicholas Korstange's dad but was clearly not Jan. I found someone in the Netherlands that also had the photo and it was identified as Janus. This is the only photograph of an ancestor that I have that was taken at a studio overseas. It's also the only photograph of an ancestor that didn't come to America. Janus' parents and several siblings lived long enough for photos to exist so I still hold out hope that perhaps there are more photos somewhere in the Netherlands that I'll be able to track down someday. If you're a Korstanje cousin visiting this please let me know if you have any photos!<br />
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Janus Korstanje was born 14 Aug 1841 at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolphaartsdijk" target="_blank">Wolphaartsdijk, Zeeland Netherlands</a>, 5th out of 12 children of Nicolaas Korstanje (1814-1880) and Jannetje de Groot (1811-1894). I see that Nicolaas signed the birth record but it apparently wasn't thought to be important that Jannetje sign, as I have seen her signature on other documents, so I know she could sign her name.<br />
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The siblings of Janus:<br />
<i>Jacobus </i>(1835-1889)<br />
<i>Leendert </i>(1837-1898)<br />
<i>Durftje </i>(1838-1906)<br />
<i>Jan </i>(1840-1906)<br />
<i>Jannetje </i>(1842-1844)<br />
<i>Jannetje </i>(1844-1846)<br />
<i>Marinus </i>(1845-1846)<br />
<i>Pieter </i>(1847-1930)<br />
<i>Marinus </i>(1848-1850)<br />
<i>Marinus </i>(1851-1852)<br />
<i>Jannetje </i>(1853-1854) - It appears that being named Marinus or Jannetje was fatal to these children.<br />
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When Janus' father passed away his brother Jan took over his business. There were 2 older sons that didn't, which strikes me as odd. Translation done by my stepmother, who has been helping me with many Dutch translations.<br />
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<i>Due to the death of my father Nicolaas Korstanje, I became the new owner of the inn "Het Zwaantje" in Wolphaartsdijk, in which my father lived before his death. I take the liberty of recommending myself to the residents of South- and North Beveland, promising a reliable and friendly service.</i></div>
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<i>On Saturday, September 8, 1883 at 2 o'clock in the afternoon at Wolphaartsdijk, Notary J.M. Pilaar will sell, in the property to be auctioned, for Jan Korstange, an inn and lodging house, called "Het Zwaantje " in the village of Wolphaartsdijk.</i><br />
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<i>Now available for sale: more information at the owner or at the office of the aforementioned notary Pilaar.</i><br />
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I posted the above about Janus' parents because I find the articles interesting.....but back to Janus. He married Jozina Westerweele, daughter of Jan Westerweele and Eva de Jonge 18 Dec 1862 at Wolphaartsdijk.<br />
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Janus and Jozina had the following children:</div>
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<i>Nicolaas </i>(1863-1870)</div>
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<i>Jan </i><u>(</u>my 2nd great-grandfather from last blog)</div>
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<i>Jannetje </i>(1865-1899)</div>
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<i>Cornelis </i>(1866-1867)</div>
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<i>Jacobus </i>(28 Apr-1 Aug 1868)</div>
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<i>Jacobus </i>(11 Jun-13 Jun 1869)</div>
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<i>Elizabeth </i>(11 Jun-5 Aug 1869)</div>
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Jannetje married Jacob Meeuwse and from 1892-1899 had (7) stillborn children. She also had a son Jacob (1890-1895) and daughter Jozina (25 Nov-1 Dec 1891). Her life sounds miserable.</div>
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Janus married his 2nd wife Neeltje de Jonge 2 Feb 1871 at Wolphaartsdijk. She was the widow of Adriaan de Jonge, who she married in 1861 and passed in 1870. She was also born a de Jonge, to Pieter de Jonge and Pieternella van de Kreeke. </div>
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Janus and Neeltje had 7 children:<br />
<i>Pieternella </i>(1871-1872)<br />
<i>Klazina </i>(20 Aug-20 Sep 1872)<br />
<i>Nicolaas </i>(1873-1946)<br />
<i>Pieternella </i>(1874-1880)<br />
<i>Leendert </i>(1876-1938)<br />
<i>Cornelis </i>(1877-1966)<br />
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I didn't find an obituary but a listing of his death did run in the <a href="https://krantenbankzeeland.nl/issue/zee/1922-03-06/edition/0/page/3?query=%22janus%20korstanje%22&period=1922&sort=relevance" target="_blank">"De Zeeuw" 06 Mar 1922</a>.</div>
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My <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/04/my-2-favorite-documents-my-2nd-great.html" target="_blank">last post</a> was about my grandpa's grandfather's papers so I think I'll write about him tonight. I call him my most direct immigrant ancestor because he's my direct male Korstange ancestor, and the generation that came to America.<br />
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Jan Korstanje was born 4 Jun 1864 at Wolphaartsdijk, Zeeland, Netherlands to Janus Korstanje (1841-1922) and Jozina Westerweele (1842-1870). His birth record was signed by his father Janus. He was the 2nd of 7 children born to Janus and Jozina, and the only one with living descendants. His father remarried twice after Jozina's death so Jan had 7 half-siblings as well. I'll blog about Janus later and write about those siblings then.<br />
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Maddeningly I can't find any reference to when Jan came to America or any ship record. In the 1900 census he lists that he'd been in America 8 years which lines up with his <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/04/my-2-favorite-documents-my-2nd-great.html" target="_blank">discharge from the Dutch military</a> 30 Apr 1891. My guess is he left shortly after that, but I don't know why.<br />
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Jan married <a href="http://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/05/jeltje-jennie-van-der-ploeg-korstanje.html" target="_blank">Jeltje "Jennie" van der Ploeg</a> 8 Apr 1896 at Grand Rapids, Kent Co Michigan. Their marriage was witnessed by Jennie's brother-in-law Jan Gerbens "John" van der Woude.<br />
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As I mentioned in my blog about Jennie, the wedding photo was found in an old steamer trunk that my grandpa's half-brother had. The trunk and it's contents are now MIA, although we all know how that happened. Perhaps someday the property will be returned to it's rightful owner so that family can have the family heirlooms that were in it.<br />
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Nicholas (1903-1981) my g-gpa<br />
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This photo is also from the steamer trunk and is now missing. Jan, John Jr, Nicholas (baby), James and Jennie c. 1904. These 2 photos are the only known photos of Jennie. Fortunately Jan's son James appears to have had quite a thing for photography and had a couple of photo albums of photos that appear to have been taken in the 1920s. I'll share some of them at the end of this post.<br />
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In 1900 Jan and Jennie are living at 318 East Leonard St in Grand Rapids, Jan a "day laborer".<br />
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Upon Jennie's death in 1918, Jan was left with 2 adult sons and 2 minor sons. Unfortunately he lost John Jr. in 1919 and Edward in 1923 so since his marriage he's buried a daughter, 2 sons and his wife, all at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13994553/jeltje-jans-korstanje" target="_blank">Greenwood Cemetery</a> in Grand Rapids.<br />
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In 1920 Jan is a laborer in a factory, living with his surviving children in Walker Township instead of Grand Rapids. The census record doesn't list an address but my grandpa took me to a house on Bristol Ave that's across the street from the west end of Greenwood Cemetery (and Jennie's obituary lists the funeral from her residence on Bristol av). I'll elaborate on this a little later.<br />
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In 1930 and 1940 Jan and Anna are living at the 1427 Alpine Ave NW address. In 1930 Jan lists that he's a "street cleaner" for the city and by 1940 I presume he's retired, having listed no occupation.<br />
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Jan passed away 29 Aug 1945 at his home on Alpine Ave of arteriosclerotic heart disease. My grandpa was off to war so he wasn't home to attend the funeral. Jan was laid to rest at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13994345/jan-w-korstanje" target="_blank">Georgetown Cemetery</a> where Anna's 1st husband was buried and where Anna joined him in 1959. His headstone, death certificate, obituary and funeral book list a middle initial of "W" but I can't find any actual records to support that where he provided a middle name/initial.<br />
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I mentioned that I'd talk more about the home on Bristol Ave. My grandpa gave me a photocopy of the land transfer paperwork that lists the address and I'll update the blog when I pull it out next. I vividly remember going to Greenwood with my grandpa to visit the graves of his grandmother and his uncles (we didn't know about his aunt Jozina and her grave is unmarked). When we left he turned right out of the cemetery instead of left and I didn't know why. He pulled in the driveway of the Bristol house, where someone was outside working on it. He got out and walked right up to the owner of the house and struck up a conversation about the house. He had the transfer paperwork with him and a photo album of his uncle Jim's photos from the 1920s, which had several shots of the Bristol house. The owner was thrilled to see these, as he was working on trying to restore the home to it's original look and the photos gave him some good insight into how the home looked. My grandpa could strike up a conversation with anyone and had none of the hesitation I do about walking up to someone that I don't know and chatting it up with them.<br />
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Here are some photos of the house and the barn. It's interesting that "John Korstanje" is painted on the barn and that he ran out of room and had to split Korstanje into 2 lines. I feel that pain when I have to sign forms that aren't long enough for my name :).<br />
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I mentioned that James Korstanje took quite a few photographs. My grandpa had 2 albums full of them that were absolutely falling apart. I ended up taking them apart and putting the photos into an acid free album. 1920s photo quality left something to be desired but these are some of the better ones that I scanned.<br />
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Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-62522045873297095292019-04-18T18:20:00.000-07:002019-04-19T05:47:17.433-07:00My 2 favorite documents - my 2nd great-grandpa's trip to AmericaYears ago my grandpa went into his safe and pulled out a small envelope (picture the ones that you put your hunting or fishing license in). He pulled out 2 parchment documents that were folded up to fit (about 2"x3") and unfolded them for me. They were his grandfather Jan Korstanje's discharge from the Dutch military from 1891 and his citizenship certificate from 1904. I was in awe of these papers, picturing his grandfather carrying them around in his pocket. He put them back in his safe but every once in awhile he'd get them out and show them to me. When I got older and more in tune with my genealogy, it dawned on me that if they continued to be kept in that little envelope and being unfolded and folded, they'd eventually fall apart.<br />
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I pointed this out to my grandpa and he agreed. He let me take them to <a href="https://www.framesunlimited.com/" target="_blank">Frames Unlimited</a> and get them framed, complete with an archival mat for each and museum glass to prevent sun damage. I don't recall the cost but it was in the neighborhood of a couple hundred dollars. He put them on a wall in his basement for awhile but eventually gave them to me. I don't have my "genealogy-cave" that I eventually want that would allow me to display my "collection" so they have been wrapped in cloth and stored safely on a shelf in my closet.<br />
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I got them out a couple of weeks ago because I'm trying to organize and get things done that I've been putting off. One of the things I've put off forever is getting these scanned. These are 16x20 frames which will give you an idea how big the certificates are - they won't fit on a flatbed scanner. I've been pondering what to do for years, not wanting to remove them from their frames. I finally got an idea.<br />
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If you're into genealogy you've heard of the <a href="https://flip-pal.com/" target="_blank">Flip-Pal scanner</a>. It's a funny looking device that I consider(ed) too expensive to justify purchasing. It allows you to scan 4x6 photos like a flatbed scanner but other scans you can do in pieces and the software will "stitch" it back together. I've got a couple friends that use them and finally asked one of them if they thought it could accomplish scanning these through the glass. She said that it would and offered to let me borrow hers. It took me about 30 minutes total to unpack it, put batteries in it, figure out how to turn it on, make the scans of the 1st one and try to stitch it (which almost worked except for 2 spots that I didn't have enough overlap), go back and rescan the 1st and scan the 2nd and stitch them together. It worked phenomenally. She told me people use these to scan quilts even (which would be time-consuming). I can't say enough good things about how well it worked and one of them is definitely on my future purchase list.<br />
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<br />Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13272539193960837538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8779031278576506786.post-41847266713142464382019-04-12T18:57:00.000-07:002019-04-12T18:58:48.311-07:00Finishing a side of my family - the Lambertson familyAfter my blog the other night I was trying to decide what direction I was going to go next. I've been highlighting the ancestry of my dad's maternal grandparents, Nicholas and Doris (Colson) Denhof. I realized that there is one more family that I really haven't mentioned. A few blogs ago I wrote about Doris' biological father Charles Perkins and noted that I'd written extensively about his father Clarence but really haven't mentioned Clarence's wife Sarah Etta Lambertson. I did <a href="https://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/05/more-government-harassment-widow-sarah.html" target="_blank">write a bit about her</a> while I was discussing Clarence's Civil War service and pension but I should write a bit more.<br />
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Sarah was born 4 Jul 1854 at Groton, Tompkins County NY (according to Sarah's recollection in the pension papers - I haven't been able to prove it otherwise). Her parents were Daniel Lambertson (1827-1900) and Delia Louw (1828-1900).<br />
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Daniel and Delia were enumerated in the 1850 census of Dryden, Tompkins Co NY, assumed to be shortly after their marriage (no children). Delia is listed as Adelia, which could be her real name but no other records list this spelling.<br />
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In 1860 Daniel and Delia are still in the town of Dryden, leading me to believe that Sarah was born there and not Groton as she states. There are 3 children with a 4 year gap between Sarah and her younger sister Lucy so possibly there was an infant or 2 lost. Daniel and Delia had an unnamed daughter 1 Feb-21 Feb 1874 at Ashland, Newaygo Co MI so they did lose at least one baby.<br />
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By the 1870 census Daniel and Delia have moved to Ashland Township, Newaygo Co MI. They have an additional 2 children and Delia's mother Caroline Louw (one of my brick walls) is living with them. Delia's brother Isaac and his family are living next door.<br />
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According to Delia's death certificate Caroline was born Caroline Johnson. She married Jonathan Louw (1796-1840) and had 4 children. She remarried to Albert Corwin and had a daughter Caroline. She vanishes after 1870.<br />
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The last census that Daniel and Delia appear in is 1880, still in Ashland. Sarah has married Clarence Perkins and started her family by now.<br />
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As stated in my <a href="https://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2014/05/how-old-is-this-man-and-where-did-he.html" target="_blank">blog about Clarence</a>, they married 1 Dec 1872 at Ashland. Sarah was Clarence's 3rd wife and Sarah is technically a stepmother to 3 children, at least 1 if not 2 that are young enough to be living at home but they are nowhere to be found in the census records, beyond his daughter Celia who is living with the family in the 1884 census.<br />
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They have 3 children together in this census, including my <a href="https://myobsessivehobby.blogspot.com/2019/03/moving-on-to-my-great-grandmas-side.html" target="_blank">2nd great-grandfather Charles Perkins</a>. Their daughter Eva married Archie Scott and I'm curious if Amy Scott that is boarding with them was a relation to him.<br />
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Daniel and Delia both died in 1900, Apr 10th and Feb 15th respectively at Ashland and are laid to rest at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7696243/daniel-lambertson" target="_blank">Shippy Cemetery</a> in Ashland.<br />
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Another interesting family story that I was able to disprove involved Daniel's death. When I took my grandma to meet with Eva Perkins Scott's granddaughter Charlene Zufelt Henry, she told me that her understanding was that after Delia passed away, Daniel was so despondent that he hung himself in the barn and that the postal worker found him dead. A sad story indeed and it would be more interesting to write about than the actual cause of death.<br />
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Again - verify those family stories.......some are true and some are so beyond false and lead you to believe things that I'm sure the deceased would prefer to not be remembered for.<br />
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In 1900 Sarah and Clarence were still living in Ashland, now the parents of 6 children living with them (daugher Eva is married and living with them, daughter Delia and son Charles have married and left the home). Sarah lists that she's been the mother of 9 children, 8 still living. I have found no record of the 9th child that they apparently lost.<br />
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By 1910 Sarah has moved back to NY, settling in her "hometown" of Groton. She's got her sons Willis and Ralph living with her.<br />
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In 1920 she's still living in Groton and still living with her 2 sons. Willis is widowed, having lost his 1st wife Effie Sobers (1866-1918). Ralph is married to his 1st wife Alice Owen (1899-1928). Alice is the mother of Jay Perkins, the grandson of Sarah that I reached out to that set my Perkins search on fire. Another genealogy lesson: read the records! While writing this blog I noticed that Willis is widowed in this census which led me to find Effie, a wife I didn't know about!<br />
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In 1925 Sarah is living with son Ralph and family in Groton.<br />
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According to the pension papers/letters referenced in my previous blog about Sarah she remained in NY until the beginning of 1938 when she moves to Ravenna, Muskegon Co MI to live with her daughter Nellie Perkins Hosmer. I'm not sure why she moved but maybe Ralph was sick of her after 18 years of living with her? Daughters are generally known as the caregivers so perhaps in her old age Nellie was better suited to care for her. Either way, Sarah passed away in Ravenna 15 Dec 1938 of pneumonia and was laid to rest at <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14004024/sarah-etta-perkins" target="_blank">Ravenna Cemetery</a>. I'd like to say she was buried near her husband but Nellie chose to have her buried near her. There is no other family of Sarah buried here.<br />
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Some pictures of Sarah and her family - these are all courtesy of Charlene Henry Zufelt or Danny Perkins and his mother Blanche. Forgive the table lines......I'm sick of fighting Blogger and it's inability to simply put photos side by side so I'm experimenting.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px; text-align: center;">Sarah with daughter Delia, granddaughter Sadie and great grandson Alfred Sjoblom 1921</span>
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Sarah with her daughter Nellie Hosmer. Judging by how frail Sarah appears in this photo compared to others I'm going to venture a guess that this was taken in the spring of 1938, after Sarah's return to Michigan.</td>
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Daughter Delia with husband Benjamin Knapp</td>
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Daugher Eva with husband Archie Scott</td>
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Son Guy with wife Mabel</td>
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Sons Guy and Willis</td>
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Daugher Nellie Hosmer 1971</td>
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Sarah with daugher Nellie - middle may be Sarah's sister Nettie Hall or possibly her sister Mary Lancaster (this woman appears much heavier than the photos of Nellie that I've seen and I have never seen a photo of Mary). </td>
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Son Ralph Perkins</td>
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Daugher Viola Ragan</td>
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Sister Nettie Lambertson Hall</td>
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Sister Lucy with husband Ted Beckwith</td>
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Back row - Harvey Hosmer with wife Nellie, Willis Perkins. Front row - Ted and Lucy Beckwith, Sarah and brother Monte Lambertson. Interestingly when the photo to the left was given to me it was identified as Daniel and Delia Lambertson, which thrilled me until I realized that they were the same folks from this photo and Daniel and Delia were dead by the time this photo was taken. Thankfully this group photo had labels on the back. </td>
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Son Willis with wife Anna 9 May 1920</td>
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Son Willis with his sister Nellie Hosmer behind him and his wife Anna on the driver's side.<br />
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Son Ralph with 1st wife Alice</td>
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Son Guy on the right at gunpoint</td>
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