Category: Iowa
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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Going four generations back to find another line This surname can be found among my wife’s Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find the first Slight – Ida Slight (1863 – 1949) Ida was born in Ackley, Iowa, and married a Dutch immigrant named Bernard Blom on 21 Nov 1885. You…
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an overview of my work on this surname Aletha Frederick Putnam was the daughter of Charles Walter Putnam (1859–1922) and Daisy Deane Frederick (1871–1964), born on 16 Nov 1899 in New Albany, Floyd County, Indiana. Her family moved to Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, between 1904 (when her younger brother was born in New Albany)…
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An overview of my work under this surname My wife’s paternal grandfather was Bob McCullough, the youngest child of Earl Randolph McCullough and Mary E. Blom. Earl’s father was John Riley McCullough, whom you might recall from the Family Reunion: McCullough post. Mary Blom’s parents were Bernard Blom (1861–1917) and Ida Slight (1863–1949), who were…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname You might recall from this earlier post: Merilyn (Martin) Rossiter (1923 – 1997) was the daughter of Howard William Martin (1897–1970) and Aletha Frederick Putnam (1899–1981), born on 17 Aug 1923 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. She married Arvid Wesley “Bud” Holmquist (1920–1996) in 1943 in…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname Grandma June (Shuffler) McCullough was my wife’s paternal grandmother – her mother was Esther Thompson, whose lineage of Scandinavian immigrants is sketched out in our 15 November post. June’s paternal line, the Shufflers, were a part of the American Midwest. I owe them a lot more…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname The revised Callin Family History is where I focused most of my efforts from 2015 to 2022. I started with James Callin, my 5x-great grandfather, and traced as many of his descendants as I could using Ancestry’s World Deluxe membership (which includes partial access to Newspapers.com…
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A Quick Overview of my work under this surname This is my wife’s paternal line – which reminds me: SIDE NOTE: If you’re a genealogist/family historian, I hope you’re not using “mother’s maiden name” in your security questions for any of your sensitive online accounts. Because it is distressingly easy to learn that information, even…
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