GraveObsessions
Digging up my roots!
Stories from an addicted genealogist
From Colonial New England to Minnesota, Norway to the United States..
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Ernest Loren Simpson
Ernest Loren Simpson – my grandmother’s father and my namesake (Well, his middle name at least!)
Susan Belle Stanwood
Susan (Stanwood) Clark Simpson was my grandmother’s mother, and the person whose roots I’ve spent my life searching!
Julia Christine Veland
Julia (Veland) Uphouse provides me with opportunities to research my Norwegian heritage! Her mother, Lisbet (Gravdahl),
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Betsey’s five patriotic grandsons and the Civil War
Last Sunday was quite momentous. I actually went to the movie theater. This was only the third time in the last eight years I was willing to give up 3 hours of my time and fork over $15 to see a film, but Lincoln was sooooo worth it! The civil war era is absolutely my…
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Determining the parentage of Jacob Meiselman
I was recently asked to research the parentage of Jacob Meiselman, and have summarized the steps in this research below. If you have additional information on the Meiselman family, or are also researching these lines, I hope to hear from you! In order to identify our subject’s parents, we first start with known facts, working…
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Tech Tuesday: The Next Generation v9.0 upgrade review
I really have enjoyed The Next Generation (TNG) – is a great way to share your research with others online. My dilemma in the past has been trying to keep TNG updated with the data I have in my primary desktop software, Roots Magic (which I LOVE!). Recently I learned that you can simply overwrite…
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Are you have problems with Ancestry.com’s DNA portal?
Are you having issues with Ancestry’s DNA portal? About a week ago I received an email with a notice stating that I have three new matches. However, when I try to access them, I keep getting the above message. Hmmm….sure hoping it resolves soon. I’m trying to be patient!
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Home is where my clock is! (and the crazy things we do for genealogy!)
I’m home. I’m finally home. Not just home in a house, but home on the East Coast. I’m finally where I belong, in the midst of my ancestors, many of whom died centuries ago. At the end of March, my husband announced he’d applied for a job in Maryland. By May he’d moved into an…
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The 21st Century Pioneer Woman
A few months ago I purchased “Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier,” a wonderful book by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith. It described the tremendous hardships 19th century women encountered when relocating to the American West. Of particular note was Pamelia Fergus of Little Falls, Minnesota, who “had been on her own…
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My AncestryDNA match
When I took the Ancestry.com autosomal DNA test, I was mostly interested in confirming my genetic ethnicity. An added bonus was my recent connection to a distant cousin – my first definite DNA match. While I didn’t learn anything new from my newly found cousin (I was able to fill in quite a few holes…
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52 Weeks of Abundant Genealogy – New England Historic Genealogical Society
Today I am thankful for the New England Historic and Genealogical Society. Through the organization’s many journals that were available at my local library, I was able to learn many details about my colonial New England ancestors. Not only did my library have recent journals, but had bound volumes dating back to the mid-19th century.…
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Genetic memory or hardwired preferences: Questions for the family historian
Genetic memory is explained as follows in Wikipedia: In psychology, genetic memory is a memory present at birth that exists in the absence of sensory experience, and is incorporated into the genome over long spans of time. It is based on the idea that common experiences of a species become incorporated into its genetic code,…
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Chronicling America chronicles the Stanwood family
Friday night I continued my search for the Stanwood surname on the Library of Congress’ web site, Chronicling America. What an awesome site! My great-great grandparents, Albert and Lavina (Bursley) Stanwood, appeared several times in the Princeton Journal – typically when visiting their daughter Georgianna (Stanwood) Cravens. Here are some of my finds:
Lauren Rogers
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