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

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, t...

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 outpost of Simsbury, would later become part of the n...

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 the...

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

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

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