A\u00a0 mother of four living apparently living apart from her husband and working as a dressmaker in Muirhead, Minnesota, a young couple in a coal-miners\u2019 neighborhood in King County, Washington with a female Swedish lodger, an older couple in the same county with eleven surviving children, a stenographer and his wife in Leavenworth, Kansas, a farmer and his consumptive wife traveling through Indian territory to the south of Kansas and missing their young sons, newlyweds from Scotland living in Minneapolis, a young couple from Ohio with a small daughter, and a wealthy couple in Virginia with their only living child, a 7-year-old boy.\u00a0 What do these folks have in common?\u00a0 They are all my children\u2019s great-great grandparents (alternatively, they are the parents of my and my husband\u2019s grandparents), as they found themselves in the year 1900.<\/p>\n
For the last few years, Christmas has been a time at which I spend some time doing genealogical research.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure exactly what the fascination is. I have relatively few living relatives: a father, two first cousins, one second cousin, and two children.\u00a0 There\u2019s something about the stories of these distant ancestors, though, that draws me in.<\/p>\n
Accordingly, I have added a page to this site entitled, ‘Family History,’ where I have linked to a searchable report that Reunion genealogy software generates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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