It’s been a busy genealogy week here. I have some active things going with the Mayflower Society, Daughers of the American Revolution, National Society Descendants of American Farmers and a research project just completed on the Mauser line in Germany. My entire genealogy research bug started when Grandpa Mauser was pretty sure that we mustContinue reading “Mauser Research”
Category Archives: Location
Bess Streeter Aldrich Connection
Some of you may be familiar with Bess Streater Aldrich the Nebraska author. I have a copy of her book “A Lantern In Her Hand” and read it again a couple of months ago. Interestingly enough a friend of mine was doing a reading challenge from the local library to read a book from orContinue reading “Bess Streeter Aldrich Connection”
Mauser Rifle Connection?
I feel like the thing that got me started in genealogy work was the question Grandpa Murl had – how are the Big Springs, NE Mausers related to Peter Paul and Wilhelm Mauser, the inventors of the Mauser rifle. When I started, I got stuck in how to research German records in addition to theContinue reading “Mauser Rifle Connection?”
US Presidents in Big Springs
As I was reading a book on Harry Truman, 33rd President of the United States, I realized that on his 1948 Whistlestop Train tour he simply had to have go through my home town of Big Springs, NE. This link (https://archive.org/details/55304HarryTrumanFootage) has some images from his tour in June of 1848 with pictures from Kearney,Continue reading “US Presidents in Big Springs”
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”
DNA Matches May Help Solve A Mystery
I don’t know if anyone who follows this blog watches “Finding Your Roots” the PBS show with Henry Louis Gates, but I love watching how they use DNA evidence to help find branches of a family tree sometimes with what seemed to be impossible odds. I may have used some DNA evidence here recently toContinue reading “DNA Matches May Help Solve A Mystery”
Nebraska Century Farm / Pioneer Award
I started work on this last year to see if our family qualified for the Aksarben Pioneer Award that recognizes farm families that have held the same ground in the family for 100 years or 150 years. After a quick stop at the county courthouse in Deuel County it looks like the Mauser family hasContinue reading “Nebraska Century Farm / Pioneer Award”
Baseball!
Sometimes family history is a bit random in what I’m looking at and why. For whatever reason, when I was at the library picking up books for our Christmas travels, I was browsing the non-fiction and saw a book on Mickey Mantle. I’ve never really been a huge baseball fan, but I knew that DadContinue reading “Baseball!”
Williams and Owens Family in Wales
The research project on Cory’s ancestors in Wales has been received. So exciting! Research in Wales is tricky as it seems like there are just a few given names used and at points in history a patronymic surname system. In Wales this would have been Owen mab William, or Owen Son of William. Knowing thatContinue reading “Williams and Owens Family in Wales”
Adam(s) Family Breakthrough
I had a very exciting breakthrough last week just completely out of the blue. For a long time I’ve been a little stuck in Cory’s family tree tracing the lineage of Francis Adams Lobner. We knew her parents and that her father was from Germany, but William Adam(s) (it shows up both ways) was hardContinue reading “Adam(s) Family Breakthrough”
Cory and Nicole Family History 