Otto Mauser and Duane Earl Pope

I’ve spent a lot of time lately working on details of Otto Mauser’s life. He is my Great Grand Uncle and a brother to my Grand Grandfather Ben Mauser. As we start our planning to move into the home that Otto built, it’s been fun to reflect on a few of the things in hisContinue reading “Otto Mauser and Duane Earl Pope”

Jury Duty and James Bayne

As we do genealogy research it’s not uncommon to look in newspapers and court documents to see where our ancestors may be mentioned. In most cases we find a will, a probate, maybe some land records or occasional dispute with the neighbors. In this case James Bayne (my 2X Great Grandfather) actually served as aContinue reading “Jury Duty and James Bayne”

Random Newspaper Find – Hagerdon Family – Oshkosh, WI Land Claim

For any of you who follow my ramblings, or anyone who is related through the Hagerdon line of my tree (My Great Grandmother Gladys Hagerdon Anderson) you may know that I hit a bit of a roadblock with my 4X Great Grandparents Luther Hagerdon and his wife Fanny Perry Hagerdon. They were true pioneers andContinue reading “Random Newspaper Find – Hagerdon Family – Oshkosh, WI Land Claim”