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Them O'Neil Sisters, Frontier Women. |
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Family History and Genealogy . . . Where I came from and how I got here.
Sunday, July 6, 2025
About the Women
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Nina Goldbin - About the Women
Nina Goldbin, Rags-to-Riches
Nina Goldbin is a relatively recent find in my hunt for ancestors and like most of my discoveries, it was completely unexpected. Lately, I have been searching for any new information (new to me), which has allowed me to update, add to, and generally refresh my older posts. There is always new information available and this round of inquiry was very fruitful. When I found Nina, I was intrigued and the more I looked into her story, the more interesting it became. The rags-to-riches title may be a bit of an exaggeration but I think it is safe to say that Nina rose from very humble beginnings to something completely unexpected.
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Nina, circa 1922 |
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Peder P. Moe - Short Biography
Peder Moe was born on September 28, 1858, in Hafslo, Norway. In 1864, at about the age of six, he came to America with his parents, Peter Olsen Moe and Anna Augundsdatter Lad and several siblings. They first went to Black Earth, Wisconsin and then settled on Section One in the northeast corner of the Town of Blue Mounds and just north of what would eventually become the Village of Mount Horeb.
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Peder Moe, about 1890. |
Friday, October 14, 2022
1950 Census - Another Milestone
Back in 2012, I was really excited about the release of the 1940 US Census - I called it once in a lifetime and it was. But lo and behold, these past 10 years have gone by fast and another 'once' is happening. The 1950 census data has been released.
72 years ago, census takers were going around the country gathering information about the population. My mom was 12 years old and growing up in small-town Wisconsin. As a matter of fact, her hometown (and mine) had a population that was less than a quarter of its size today. 1950 ushered in an era of prosperity and growth for much of the country. World War II was in the rear view mirror and the future looked bright. In my own family search, many of the boys and girls from the 1940 census are adults and starting families of their own by 1950 and there are new names in the lists - new children who were not yet born in 1940. There are also those that have disappeared from the record, yes, some have died in the intervening years. The census brings home the full circle of life in cold, hard facts.
Saturday, August 13, 2022
The Buell Family - Colonial Americans
Martha Buell was the wife of Nathaniel Holcombe II. She was born in Simsbury, Connecticut in 1675. Martha was the third or fourth of nine or ten children of Sergeant Peter Buell (b.1644, d.1728) and his first wife, Martha Cogan (Coggins / Cozzins) (b.1648, d.1686), both of Windsor, Connecticut.
Martha and Nathaniel Holcombe were married in 1695. She was raised on the frontier at Hop Meadow and would raise her family in the remote outpost at Salmon Brook. By the early 1700s, the area was becoming more settled and less of a frontier but there were still dangers lurking about.
Monday, December 27, 2021
Salmon Brook (Granby), Connecticut
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Granby Center (Salmon Brook); from the United States Geological Survey, 1892 |
Thursday, March 2, 2017
In Search of David Hollister
The Town of Dansville, Stuben County, New York; where David Hollister spent his youth? |
Friday, February 3, 2017
Windsor, Connecticut
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North-central Connecticut prior to 1625 showing tribal settlements along the Connecticut River in the area of future Windsor. |