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Margretha Muller (c1632-1689), Wife to Rudolph Muller, Born in Switzerland –...
We don’t know Margaretha or Margretha’s birth surname, but we do know that she was born in Switzerland and married Johann Rudolph Muller, probably in Switzerland as well – sometime before the birth of...
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Painting the Life of Rudolph & Margretha Muller in Grossheppach, Germany – 52...
It never fails to amaze me when fate joins cousins from across the globe. Yep, it has happened once again and I’m jumping for joy. Johann Rudolpf Muller and his wife, Margretha had several children –...
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Rudolph Muller’s Blacksmith Shop in Grossheppach
Just when you thought we were finished with Rudolph Muller and his wife, Margretha, in Grossheppach, we’re not Cousin Wolfram, using the 1832 cadastral maps, made an important discovery and has been...
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Outside the Pale: The Lore Family’s “Remarkable” Life Revealed Through the...
Recently, I renewed a previously lapsed subscription to Newspapers.com (get 7 days free, here) in order to search for one particular event surrounding one specific ancestor. But then, as things do with...
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Curt Lore “Shoots Wells” With Nitroglycerine and Dynamite – 52 Ancestors #325
In the article, Outside the Pale: The Lore Family’s “Remarkable” Life Revealed Through the Newspaper, we discovered details about the life of Curt Lore, known as C. B. Lore, in Rushville, Indiana. One...
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Van Oeyen/Oijen Synchronicity in Venlo – 52 Ancestors #326
In 2017, I traveled to the Netherlands, land of my ancestors, where Yvette Hoitink, Dutch genealogist extraordinaire, me and my husband visited the city of Venlo in the southeast corner of the...
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Edith Lore Blossoms: Floods, Typhoid, The “Beauty Bunch,” a Scholarship…Plus...
The newspapers of the early 1900s often reported on the social lives of their local residents. Thank goodness, for researchers today, that they did. There’s so much to glean about these family members...
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Curt Lore: Knock, Knock, Knocking at the Door – 52 Ancestors #328
1908 ended in Rushville, Indiana with Edith Lore marrying John Ferverda in November, “quietly,” the same day as they obtained their license, in the home of the Presbyterian minister. For socialites,...
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Curtis Lore: White Plague Times Two – 52 Ancestors #329
According to the Rushville, Indiana newspaper, Curt Lore, my great-grandfather, had been sick for at least a year before he died in November of 1909. According to his death certificate, he had been ill...
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Who was Patrick aka P. L. aka Alonzo aka Lon Lore? – 52 Ancestors #330
Seriously, I don’t know. This man is a mystery. Why can’t I let this go? This man is like a ghost slipping in and out of the periphery of the Lore family story, popping up here and there shouting “Boo”...
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Mother’s Day is Hard – 52 Ancestors #331
Mom at age 18. Ok, I’m just going to admit it. Mother’s Day is hard for me. Really hard. Wish I could just sleep all day and wake up on Monday after it’s all over hard. And to be clear, my difficulty...
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The Camstra Trail: A Little Box with a Photo – 52 Ancestors #332
The day started out just like any other day, but THIS day would hold something very special. Hi Roberta, I’m writing you from the Netherlands. I don’t know where you live. Your name came up in my...
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Camstra Burials: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way – 52 Ancestors #333
In last week’s article, The Camstra Trail, I was gifted with the beautiful miniature photo of Douwe Baukes Camstra and his wife and subsequently found the burial location of the couple, at least in...
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Jacob Dobkins and the Battle of Kings Mountain – 52 Ancestors #334
The temperature peaked someplace in the 90s on the Friday before Memorial Day in 2012, and the humidity was stifling. No one else, except one runner, was crazy enough to be hiking on Kings Mountain...
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Two Rudolf Muellers Born on the Same Day in the Same Year in the Same Place –...
Seriously – only me. This would only happen to me. And I thought three Michael Kirsch’s living in the same village were bad. We’ve been following Rudolph Muller’s life where we found him as an adult in...
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Dad’s Wisdom: Navigating This Cascade of Grief – 52 Ancestors #336
It looks like we are, hopefully, emerging from this miserable pandemic and it’s great to see people going about their lives, joyfully. Almost like nothing ever happened, or is happening. I hope they,...
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Nora Kirsch Lore: Girlfriend, What Were You Thinking? – 52 Ancestors #337
I didn’t know much about my great-grandmother, Nora Kirsch when I was growing up, or when I first started researching my genealogy. She passed away in 1949, long before I was born. I knew that Nora was...
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Acadian Refugee Households at Camp d’Esperance 1756-1761 – 52 Ancestors #338
Anyone with Acadian ancestors knows that the Acadian families were forcibly deported from Nova Scotia beginning in 1755 by the English military in retaliation for refusing to sign a loyalty oath to the...
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Robert Vernon Estes: Still Missing, But Not Forgotten – 52 Ancestors #339
Today was an incredible day – one I’ve been working towards and looking forward to for more than a year. One that Robert Vernon Estes earned more than 70 years ago. Robert was a POW, captured in Korea...
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The Final, Really, Really Final Goodbye – 52 Ancestors #340
The final goodbye might not be what you think it is, or when. It certainly wasn’t what I expected. I thought the final goodbye was when I buried my loved one. Or maybe the final goodbye was the...
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