Category: Family Photos
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Not a lot of information survived the years, but we can set a marker down and keep studying. There is always more to learn.
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Picking up where our story of John H. Callin left off, his wife, Amanda Walker, saw the world change drastically between her girlhood in the 1880s and her death during the Great Depression.
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Our ancestors often lived in the margins of history, and even those who left few records can teach us a lot, if we’re willing to study the context.
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The biography of John H. Callin has layers that shift in meaning, depending on how deeply you examine the records and artifacts he left behind.
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Only a mid-century Midwesterner can pack such an unassuming biography with so many unique details. Here we go, Howie!
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Welcome to the biography of our Ahnentafel’s first American Immigrant! Arvid William Holmquist, born in Sweden in 1880.
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Just looking at the simple facts of their biographies isn’t enough; you have to look at everyone around them to see the story of Don and Esther.
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A little late, and a little short – but a full biography of a full life, nonetheless!
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Sometimes the memories we have don’t carry the history of the people that made them. I got to meet the youngest of my Great-Grandparents before she died, but it would be years before I learned her story.
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Alfred was a friendly, funny man, according to the impressions I inherited. But he is also an entry point into a deeper vein of history.
