Category: New Jersey
Families that lived in the state and left records behind there.
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Welcome to a wrap-up/overview of the previous eight weeks! What interesting patterns do we see in each generation? Let’s compare them!
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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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Last week, our Ahnentafel reached its first milestone as we talked about the last of my childrens’ Great Eight. Here’s a summary of facts about that Generation.
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Finding evidence is never a straightforward process; here’s an examination of a source that holds as many questions as answers.
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This story is part of the celebration of America’s 250th birthday at Projectkin – Stories250. Look for more at https://projectkin.substack.com/p/stories250-now-in-timeline-and-map
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Married after the end of the Second World war, my maternal grandparents embarked on a lengthy 50-year journey. Here’s a taste of it!
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Finding Samuel’s occupation led me to realize that the online trees had him mis-identified. How studying the original documents brought me closer to finding his correct ancestry.
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Some stories hide behind the records Born on 11 March 1870, James Henry Opp grew up in the small town of Dansville in Livingston County, New York. His father, Jacob Edward Opp, was a veteran of the Civil War, and his mother was Mary Elizabeth Palmer, descended from a family of New Jersey shipbuilders. Jacob…
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