Category: Family Photos
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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.
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The evidence we have suggests hard times and heavy years, but that’s the problem with not having a lot of evidence.
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Of my great-grandparents, David Clark’s biography leaves me with more questions than I can expect to answer. Maybe that’s okay.
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Another installment of the Callin families who stayed in Milton Township, Ohio, after the first generation of settlers (James and John) died.
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Great-Grandma Merle was one of the last two people on this Ahnentafel journey who I actually met. And since I’ve written about her story before, I’ll try to capture some of my memories of what she was like.
Mightier Acorns 