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Peder Moe, North Dakota Pioneer Peder Moe was born on September 28, 1858 in Hafslo, Norway. In 1864, at the age of six, he came to America ...

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 low and behold, ...

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...

Salmon Brook, which started out as no more than a small cluster of houses and a remote outposts of Simsbury, would later became part of the ...

One of the joys of family research is discovering lines of ancestors that you had never heard of. In my search there have been a few of thes...

Located north of Hartford on the Connecticut River, Windsor was the first permanent settlement in the, soon to be, Connecticut Colony and th...

The primary focus of Genealogy is often concentrated on individual ancestors and there connection to others in the family. It is concerned a...

Catherine Chapin was the wife of Nathaniel Bliss and mother of Mary Bliss. She was born is Pomeroy, Devin, England in 1622. Catherine was th...