This lovely photo shows Bernard Joseph Anstoetter and Lidwina Kramer just after their wedding in Dyersville, Iowa, December 1919. My mother in law, child of Ben and Lydia had one
Category: research notes
Lumberjacks – the cowboys of early Maine
Following up on the legend of the death of Moses Gould in 1816, I had some questions. Would a logger’s death have been so commonplace it wasn’t recorded in a
Trying to tease Moses out of the shadows
My 4th great grandfather, Moses Gould died at age 40, reportedly while lumbering in the Maine woods. He left a wife, Anne Adams Gould, and 7 young children. My 3rd
Asher research – resuming
I’m headed to Salt Lake City in a few weeks and I decided to pull together a county list for the Asher’s who appear on my timeline. Now I’m a
The Thomas Asher who died in Texas – how does he relate to my Thomas?
According to the War of 1812 pension file of Thomas Asher, who died in TX in 1885, he was drafted in Anderson County, Tennessee, in October 1814 and was discharged
Updates and corrections to the Asher timeline
A big thank you to cousin Darrel who went over the Asher timeline with a fine toothed comb and discovered errors and helped with additions. Rather than do a second
Tennessee Asher people – War of 1812
I’ve been using War of 1812 pension records, bounty land claims and service records to try and assemble a group of Asher males who might be related. There are 6
An underutilized source – military service records
I’ve done so much research on the Whitman family of Greenbrier County, West Virginia that I suspect I could spout family trees in my sleep. But in all my years
Savage Research published in Maine Genealogist
I’m not sure if I’m upset or not. But the research I’ve posted on my website has been published by someone else in the current edition of the Maine Genealogist.
Bad research habits
I recently had a phone call from a distant cousin. We are both descendants of Jesse Savage and Hannah Wills through different children. He had read my Savage family article