Digging up my roots!
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Ernest Loren Simpson – my grandmother’s father and my namesake (Well, his middle name at least!)
Susan (Stanwood) Clark Simpson was my grandmother’s mother, and the person whose roots I’ve spent my life searching!
Julia (Veland) Uphouse provides me with opportunities to research my Norwegian heritage! Her mother, Lisbet (Gravdahl),
Susan Ann Simpson was born in Fort Covington, Franklin County, New York on 15 June 1847, the second child of six born to George W. and Achsa (Sisco) Simpson (and their only daughter). Aunt Susie (she was the sister of my great grandfather, Ernest L. Simpson) had surgery when she was young to have a…
If your colonial family came from Maine like mine did, they were likely engaged in or supported the lumber industry. Later, when the local forests were depleted and barren, many of those Mainers headed west to Minnesota and other regions where pine was still plentiful. Thus it was with my grandmother’s maternal family who relocated…
Nearly fourteen years ago I posted (um, more like lamented) about my 3x great grandmother who seemed to completely disappear after the 1885 census. (Original post here.) I strongly suspected she was still alive in 1893 even though she was not listed as a survivor in the death announcement of her mother, Mary (Scott) White…
Brick walls in genealogical research are created often when we do not analyze information closely and instead make assumptions about what we are visualizing. Such is the case with my third great grandfather, John Mayel Simpson. In over thirty years of research, I’d made little progress on this family. And the reason? John rarely used…
Maps are every genealogist’s friend. When you understand where your ancestor’s lived, their proximity to towns, villages and others around them, it helps reveal those elusive details that we all hope to uncover. Sometimes, however, mapping is an absolute necessity, as in the case of identifying when and where my 3x great grandparents, John Mayel…
Last week I wrote about finding the parents of my third great grandmother, Mina Wilson, by combing through clusters of autosomal DNA matches. Well, this week I get to add another person to the family tree: Uncle William M. Simpson! But first, some background: Far little is known about our Simpson family prior to my…
Who are the parents of Mina Wilson, wife of Obed Sisco? It wasn’t until I started playing with clusters of DNA that an answer appeared! Like most women of the early 19th Century, Mina didn’t have opportunities to leave much of a paper trail to give us hints about her origins and family roots. In…
Julia (Veland) Uphouse provides me with opportunities to research my Norwegian heritage! Her mother, Lisbet (Gravdahl) Veland, is an inspiration to me with the many letters she wrote that have made their way to me. More to come on my wonderful journey into the lives of these Norwegian immigrants!
Click here for Susan B. Stanwood’s genealogy Susan Belle Stanwood was the young child of Albert and Lavina (Bursley) Stanwood. She was born at Santiago, Sherburne County, Minnesota 15 May 1885, and died at Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota 22 December 1946. She married her first husband, Edwin R. Clark, at Floodwood, St. Louis County, Minnesota…