tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85625160560201271622024-03-13T11:55:43.140-07:00Poland or PrussiaGenealogy/family history blog- the strategies, failures, and successes. Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-65174142397294438792023-01-07T05:59:00.002-08:002023-01-07T05:59:19.039-08:00Random DNA Notes<p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Heavy in Switzerland? I'd never contemplated that area before. </li><li>Full path Y Haplogroup Path </li></ul>R-M207>M173>M343>L754>L389>P297>M269>L23>L51>P310>L151>P312>Z46516>ZZ11>U152<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>My brother and I share more DNA than my spouse and his brother share. </li><li>As per some GEDMATCH tools, I am not related to my husband nor were my parents related. </li><li>Big Y DNA is expensive. I want to see more of what I might get. </li><li>mtDNA only has two matches for me. That seems really small. What gives? </li></ul><p></p><p> </p>Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-74238292997631764022022-12-22T06:14:00.002-08:002022-12-22T06:14:14.937-08:00Indexing Bias<p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think it is well past time that Ancestry.com (and other historical archives, academic libraries, and commercial genealogy sites) address their indexing biases. Whether indexing was directly done by humans or by human-written code, I find it ridiculous that all the people mentioned in a will or other documents are not indexed in what is soon to be 2023. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I am looking at a will right now where an enslaved woman, Lucy, is bequeathed to others in the all too common practice of the time and region. Lucy was a person. Lucy was denied her agency then; she shouldn’t be denied her identity now. It will take time to get this right. Doesn't mean we cannot start.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">There is a current feature where I, as the user, can amend the record called ‘Add New Person to Index’. However, it only allows me to save if I provide a last name. Giving her the last name of her enslavers feels wrong and unjust. Lucy will be stuck forever with that name in the digital records world. Also, my options for the relation of the will’s author to Lucy don’t cover this situation. ‘Servant’ and ‘Other’ being only non-familial options. Lucy wasn’t a servant; she was an enslaved person. Other is perhaps painfully ironic but not right. Yes, slavery is shameful but masking it now by erasure and obfuscation is not the right path.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">#genealogy #historicalRecords #slavery #africanDiaspora #FamilyHistory<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>#SystemicRacism<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-13973144880138801012022-11-23T07:35:00.008-08:002022-12-22T06:12:09.205-08:00Genetic Ancestry when it is not for Cousin Catching<p><span style="font-family: times;">Besides the obvious help of finding relatives that DNA offers, DNA testing has helped me in other ways. </span><span style="font-family: times;">First of all, I don't too worked up about all of this. I don't go buying heritage swag in the form of "Kiss me, I'm Irish" buttons or "Honk if you're Italian" bumper stickers for my car. I never have been emotionally invested. The science and commercialization of parts of that science do intrigue me though. These "ethnicity" estimates are based on people answering questions either in a commercial setting (example FTDNA Where are your people from? Type that here) and regional research projects that perhaps would ask research subjects different questions or at least ask the questions<i> differently </i>today. In aggregate, there is going to be so mush and squish in there. However, I also don't discount the ethnicity/regional estimates entirely and say "That cannot possibly be correct as I know yada yada yada..." Maybe there is a tidbit in there that doesn't bear out now but may provide a glimmer of a clue later. The <i>lack</i> of something might also be equally as telling. Finally, when/how long ago of an ethnic/regional characteristic really puts a different spin on the same exact DNA. Being from a place now would be very different from <i>then</i>, whenever *then* is. So instead of being wrong or inconsistent with another testing company's results, you might be comparing apples and elephants. Others have and will do those comparisons much better than I ever could. Instead, I wanted to dive into some times where DNA has helped in more than cousin catching.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Example 1:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>"Our family is related to the people of Cherokee Nation (CN) [<i><span lang="chr-Cher-Latn" style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;">Tsalagi, a</span> North American Indigenous People</i>]"</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">After more than 12 years of research, no primary source/paper record ever revealed any connection to any North American Indigenous People, much less to the CN. A DNA test finally cinched the no connection piece for me because these populations are fairly well-studied. As older relatives also took DNA tests, I felt we finally had to put that family myth to bed. I proposed to my cousin who also dabbled in family history, that the myth perhaps got started because a group had lived in Cherokee county and then returned there years later. Only found this when I traced a wayward son through his life. He ended living with people other than his biological family but always seemed to try and go back to Cherokee county. From "from over in Cherokee" seems easily munged to "from Cherokee" to me. I do not know if my cousin was ever convinced as she still tells people we have CN ancestors. [And just be clear, this was never about blood quantum requirements for tribal membership for me, just research for research sake.)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Example 2:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><b>"Italian, through and through"</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">The few photographs I has access to for the people from northern Italy had, at first, indecipherable captions. At the time, I just thought my lack of Italian language was the reason for the difficulty. After years of research and a visit in person to the Family History Center in Utah, USA I made a lot headway into the people of the small town of Corio in Piedmont, Italy. Another oddity, the naming conventions were pretty unique for the area, two and three part last names that were not entirely matrilineal nor patrilineal. And when I say unique to the area, I am really saying the township, a tiny little pocket. As we do, I wouldn't circle back to these quirks for years. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">It wasn't until I read three different books on linguistics where the authors, who otherwise disagreed on a number of other things, all agreed that pockets of language are left behind in geographically distinct areas (low valleys or mountains, for example) when a new people floods the area through conquest or simply migration. For mountainous areas, it helps to think of the people like tidal waters. (And here I pre-apoligize to linguistic researcher for my simplifications, I am just a layperson) The influx of people only penetrates so far up the mountains. But, if you get enough people, in greater and greater waves over longer periods of time, the "water line" goes farther upwards and leaves multiple marks. In this case, the marks made were traced though language changes over time. Perhaps more fascinatingly, in strata upwards in elevation, language could be impacted multiple times with differing degrees of effects. On the mountain-top, the language can be more unaffected. In the case of valleys, perhaps use the analogy of a fog floating in. It doesn't sink down into the valley, not completely, unless there is enough of it. Without studying these language changes over time, it *looks* like the holdout language is the invader; that perhaps a whole band of people migrated into the area and set-up shop. But in reality, it's the reverse: the locals where surrounded, and is especially true when you find the pocket areas dotted along and aligning with geological features. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Anyway, hopefully you'll see where I am headed with this and Corio. When I first got the DNA results, I didn't have any of this knowledge under my belt. So I was surprised when my brother, my older cousins, and I had less than 1 percent of Italian. This hasn't shifted in testing with multiple companies or over time. When I applied the linguistic concepts from my hobby reading to Corio and really looked, I found they did speak a patois, again, hyper localized but pockets of related </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif;">Franco-Provençal languages & dialects. They spoke (and speak today in vanishing numbers) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif;">Piedmontese, considered a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif;">Valdôtain dialect of the </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif;">Franco-Provençal/Arpitan language (s). </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif;">Piedmontese is <u>not</u> a dialect of modern Italian. As you look at evolution of the pockets </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, serif;">Franco-Provençal, the </span><span style="font-family: Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif;">genetics makes more sense and well as that "sounds right out of a Roman Empire movie" multipart naming conventions I kept running into in just that small town but not its nearest neighbors. So yes, my ancestors seem to be from Italy as a spot on the modern political boundary map, but it's a tad more complicated than that. And now, I've been able to translate those mystery photo captions. I might have eventually came to the same conclusions without the DNA, but the (perceived) gaping holes in the DNA spurred me to step back a bit and ask different questions. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif;">Example 3:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif;"><b>"Yeap, all Irish from that side." </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif;">In this case, it might be a matter of semantics and nuance, but no, not all <i>directly</i> from Ireland. Looking for a USA<> Ireland connection was getting me nowhere fast. DNA onto the scene, keeps telling me there is a sizable chunk of Scotland in there. Yes, of course, it is my paternal side. As I worked with the data over the years, before the "which side" guesstimate feature came out on Ancestry.com, I'd isolated that the bigger chunk actually came from the maternal side. I stepped back and instead of trying to find where it was, I eliminated where it wasn't. It had to be from my Irish dead-ends. So, re-examining everything had me questioning a secondary source. The town name, which my family historian predecessor had always placed in the United States was actually a town by the same name in Scotland! At the this same I was brushing up/learning for the first time immigration and emigration patterns for the time period. Hop-scotching from Ireland to Scotland then USA was pretty common. They went where the work was. In my scenario like many others, several generations of Irish miners made their home in Scotland before they or their dependents came to mine yet again in the USA. These generations of Irish miners of course married local and folded in that Scottish blood. Now I know those people are from County Down, the town of Banbridge/the civil parish of Seapatrick. I'll admit I'm stuck at a John or James Bright possibly born around 1799. But I am still pleased I made it that far. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif;">So all in all, DNA has helped as one more imperfect tool in the toolbox. I've used it to facilitate my research but never to "prove" or "disprove" any one thing. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Linux Libertine, Georgia, Times, serif;"><br /></span></p>Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-64519357006077612502022-11-23T02:21:00.003-08:002022-11-23T09:58:34.421-08:00Penmanship Honors<p>As genealogists, we regularly curse and bemoan the poor penmanship of poll takers and enumerators. But today I want to turn the tables of that trite and tired tradition by instead awarding the Golden Pen 🖊️ 🥇 to Joseph F. Young, a census taker in Muskegon, Michigan, whose block printing in a 1930 census record is a glory to behold. Our collective hats 🎩 off to you, Joe. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsRYWIG2vNcKeZpOjdu1eSJgDcdKaq5eF0ifSbZ4kwfgmUoaVS-__obSwyw15eFk1305BtoSuKZQL9AHTjUgbh_ECUOoKzAedKsNsm-Gbo5KurU89AdoMvCPyug_Z31uK1ndLYRwgy_E_521B9h1UP_GLbHyScvEDpInogRRYaZAHUB9NLc4BRtIWb5g/s1544/5E80BCCB-248F-4F7E-9BA6-B1D3E568C647.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Snippet of a hand written 1930 U.S. Federal census with careful block handwriting." border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1136" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsRYWIG2vNcKeZpOjdu1eSJgDcdKaq5eF0ifSbZ4kwfgmUoaVS-__obSwyw15eFk1305BtoSuKZQL9AHTjUgbh_ECUOoKzAedKsNsm-Gbo5KurU89AdoMvCPyug_Z31uK1ndLYRwgy_E_521B9h1UP_GLbHyScvEDpInogRRYaZAHUB9NLc4BRtIWb5g/w235-h320/5E80BCCB-248F-4F7E-9BA6-B1D3E568C647.jpeg" title="1930 Federal Census (United States)" width="235" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-77030908185833228762022-11-13T07:15:00.003-08:002022-11-13T07:29:05.078-08:00Scottish Ancestral AreasMy Scottish ancestral areas (inspired by @ScottishGENES)<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Angus (Dundee)</li><li>Argyll
(Appin, Island of Shuna, Kentallen)</li><li>Avrshire (Dunlop, Kilmarnock, Kilmaurs, Saltcoats, Banffshire, Dunbartonshire)</li><li>Fife (Dysart, Kilconquhar Largo)</li><li>Lanarkshire (Airdrie, Baillieston, Blantyre, Bothwell, Cambuslang, Cambusnethan, Carluke, Carmichael, Carnwath, Chapelton, Coatbridge, Dalziel, Douglas, East Kilbride, Glasgow, Glassford, Govan, Hamilton, Hutchesontown, Libberton, New Monkland, Old Monkland Middle, Old Monkland Western, Old Monkland, Partick, Rutherglen, Shettleston, Shotts, Tradeston, Uddingston) </li><li>Midlothian (Cockpen, Edinburgh, Edinr, Leith, St Andrew, West Calder)</li><li>Moray (Elgin)</li><li>Perthshire (Comrie, Little Dunkeld)</li><li>Renfrewshire (Abbey, Barrhead, Cathcart, Eastwood)</li><li>West
Lothian (Whitburn) </li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOF4_dDJf5BhaFOIeEd3mSw3PS5DA1Zu4AGT9g4iuaSSaBU1TJFAkohcxmkmwTl6H5OWQQ8-GiDvNi3QrioVSUEcHm5kltyUxwh1vWG1EoZivh_OY-G677o7jjk173xuHCDpPaPvhXlux8sn_QWjjng0rP3fQLTzbaYjS1fThDctF0IDxoWIf6tWFrmA/s2130/The_imperial_gazetteer_of_Scotland;_or,_Dictionary_of_Scottish_topography,_compiled_from_the_most_recent_authorities,_and_forming_a_complete_body_of_Scottish_geography,_physical,_statistical,_and_(14759498386).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Map of Lanarkshire in the Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, 1868. It shows a listing of parishes and the names of the surrounding counties." border="0" data-original-height="2130" data-original-width="1530" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOF4_dDJf5BhaFOIeEd3mSw3PS5DA1Zu4AGT9g4iuaSSaBU1TJFAkohcxmkmwTl6H5OWQQ8-GiDvNi3QrioVSUEcHm5kltyUxwh1vWG1EoZivh_OY-G677o7jjk173xuHCDpPaPvhXlux8sn_QWjjng0rP3fQLTzbaYjS1fThDctF0IDxoWIf6tWFrmA/w460-h640/The_imperial_gazetteer_of_Scotland;_or,_Dictionary_of_Scottish_topography,_compiled_from_the_most_recent_authorities,_and_forming_a_complete_body_of_Scottish_geography,_physical,_statistical,_and_(14759498386).jpg" title="Map of Lanarkshire in the Imperial Gazetteer of Scotland, 1868" width="460" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Image Credit: By Internet Archive Book Images - https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14759498386/Source book page: https://archive.org/stream/imperialgazettscv2wils/imperialgazettscv2wils#page/n311/mode/1up, No restrictions, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44133160</div>Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-59245879032562062792021-04-11T14:54:00.001-07:002021-04-11T14:54:15.701-07:00Found Their Brothers!Giovanni Batista Ruo Redda Lossat
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<br>While I couldn't find their birth records, I found their marriage records in the old country which listed out the parents.
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<br>I made an offline tree, with just this tiny branch and have been adding each and every record I grabbed in 2019 at the Family History Center Library in SLC. Some of the records I downloaded are now availed online but they weren't then and still not indexed so the victory is still sweet.
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My husband’s family lived in <span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">Wüstenzell</span> before 1885. My husband’s great great grandfather, Joseph Engelhardt (Engelhanz?) Spanheimer, immigrated to the United States in 1885 with his sister Rosa and much older sister Martha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I reached out to some folks on Instagram and a nice person contacted their friend who lives nearby. The house still stands! The <span style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;">Wüstenzell</span> native took a current picture and shared it with me. It was easy for them to take the pic as THEY OWN THE HOUSE. Neat coincidence. Pretty exciting!</span></div>
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Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-66946752623482677612019-06-30T17:18:00.000-07:002019-12-30T18:08:53.261-08:00Family History Library Week<div style="color: #1d2129; margin-bottom: 6px;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I know I've been MIA for a while. But I have still been doing research. In fact, two weeks ago I spent my week nights at the Family History Library. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I used the whole time on only two digitized films. It was so much easier than what I remember working with the films directly a number of years ago, but the process of going through the yearly, un-transcribed indexes and then back through the images was just as slow. However, I was able to create discrete sources, save to tree, and d/l the images. I also was able to log onto Dropbox and upload the images. I was trying to save time and not do the translations there. I think the method was effective and I could work on what I retrieved for the next year and still not get through them. The prep work I did by doing specialized reports from my tree of birth, deaths, and marriages against the region meant I wasn't looking for a record that couldn't possibly be there. While the family group sheets were helpful for context, the reports formed a detailed checklist for record retrieval.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I also learned more about the Family Search Community feature; the volunteers and staff who work at the FHL do indeed monitor the groups. Once I have my work in order, I plan to utilize two of the groups I joined to help with the tricky bits. </span></div>
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<br />Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0Salt Lake City, UT, USA40.7607793 -111.8910473999999940.568390300000004 -112.21377089999999 40.9531683 -111.5683239tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-45425050992503676432017-11-12T03:07:00.000-08:002017-11-12T04:08:10.370-08:00Christmas Greetings from 17th Balloon Company, Fort Mills, Corregidor, PI, from 1921In 1920, Joe Wolff was in 17th Balloon Company Fort Omaha, Nebraska. His job is listed as timekeeper. Also included in the memorabilia stash were pictures of a balloon and what I believe to be pictures taken <i>from</i> a balloon. My cousin-by-marriage and I have identified the balloon as a Coquat Type R Observation Balloon. I'll save those pics for another post. The star of the show today is this booklet dated inside as 1921. As of this writing, that's 96 years ago, folks. I believe this was sent from Private First Class Joseph Wolff while stationed in the Phillipines to his sister, Adele Wolff, in Chicago. I don't have the original here. This beautiful artifact is with family in Arizona.<br />
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I wonder if this is why oyster dressing was and is so popular with the Wolff menfolk?<br />
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This could be why I have never found her birth in Italy and also why I have been looking for arrivals way to *late*. Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0Litchfield, Baker, KS 66762, USA37.4408832 -94.64968090000002111.918848700000002 -135.95827490000002 62.962917700000006 -53.341086900000022tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-32292086255336127472017-04-12T03:31:00.001-07:002017-04-12T03:31:29.214-07:00Walter Pascoe shot by W.T. Kinman<iframe frameborder="0" height="394" scrolling="no" src="https://www.newspapers.com/clippings/embed_clipping/?id=10212914&w=394&h=394" style="background: #333 url("https://www.newspapers.com/i/loadingAnimation.gif") no-repeat 50% 50%; border: 3px double #efefef;" width="394"></iframe><small style="display: block;">Found on <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/">Newspapers.com</a></small><small style="display: block;"><br /></small><small style="display: block;"><br /></small>Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-12624911176198269362015-07-28T12:50:00.000-07:002015-08-08T12:55:36.567-07:00Old Skool Reels<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">letters to Torino, Italy government and religious offices had gone unanswered. I don’t think my stilted Italian is so bad it offended the entire nation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I needed a recharge. I needed new way to come at the problem. I looked around for ways to circle back that didn’t feel merely like chasing my tail. To the beginning I went. Not to the beginning of the paper trail but rather to to the beginning of of the search. I needed to refresh my skills and tune them to be more Italy specific.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I started on the <a href="http://familysearch.org/">FamilySearch.org</a> training area. I watched a great video on records available in Italy with a wonderful section on civil registrations. (Ironically, I cannot find that video right now.) While the records I need are not online, the reference to them are online. FamilySearch has microfiche of statutory registrations of Corio, Torino. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since the death and marriage records are backordered, I’ll only have 1866- 1907 births. Still pretty exciting. I’m not sure how much copies are going to cost. It has been 20 years since I have used a microfiche reader. While I wait for them to arrive at my local family history center I plan to make an an inventory and checklist of what I expect to find. </span></div>
Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com010070 Corio TO, Italy45.3117416 7.5334354000000345.289408599999994 7.49309490000003 45.3340746 7.57377590000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-58480490809375329592015-03-23T05:15:00.000-07:002015-08-08T07:19:26.971-07:00::RECORD NOT FOUND:: but appears<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Despite having the month, year, and names correct, my repeated requests to the Detroit,Wayne county, Michigan vital records office went unfulfilled. I had an undated photo from the day. But very own grandparents, the rare people in my family tree that I actually knew when they were alive apparently had married in stealth in another location = a location where no records we kept. It was odd that living family </span>recited<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> the same exact day one year prior the couple's first son’s birth as their wedding date. Was that a easy to remember lie because in truth the wedding was much closer or even after the wedding? All I had were theories. Honestly, I wouldn’t judge them at all if there was comfortable </span>shifting of events to make things easier on them but it certainly wasn't making easy on me as the family historian. F<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">olks did and still have a lot of pressure to “keep up appearances”. Considering my possibilities, I began research what counties and states around them had the laxest laws and the shortest wait times. More records requests from likely candidates came back empty handed as well. I finally decided to step way from it and wrote it down on my “if I ever travel to Detroit list…". I </span>have<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> been looking since at least 2006.</span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I moved on to other things and even in that time let my <a href="http://ancestry.com/">ancestry.com</a> subscription lapse. I was looking and using as many other resources as I could for other efforts. Then in February this year, Ancestry published their latest collection “<a href="http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9093" target="_blank">Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952</a>". </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">And, without any cajoling of names and squinting to make things line up, the leafy hint popped up and there the record of their marriage was…in the right month and in the right year that I had provided to the clerks so many times. </span>Leola Corgiat was spelled incorrectly twice (CORGAIT), but Ray's was just fine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">Is there a moral? I am not sure- because if was so badly misfiled that the clerks familiar with the records couldn’t find it, what makes me think I could find it during a costly journey to the records office? It was only through an exhaustive one-to-n scanning and uploading process that caught the record like a fish in a net. Then, it was through extensive indexing, a brute force effort by many folks that the record became known to me. I am well aware how no part of this was automagical. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I learned my grandmother was once a </span>stenographer<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">, I had only known about her days as a bookkeeper. </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Perhaps now I can identify the second </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">woman (Evangeline Monacheim??) in the photograph. </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Overall, I'm of course pleased as punch the record finally came to light, but I can't say I have a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">reproducible</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> strategy since "simply wait" is what got the job done in the end. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Ancestry.com. <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=9093" target="_blank">Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952 [database on-line]</a>. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Original data: Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867–1952. Michigan Department of Community Health, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><br /></span></span>Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0Detroit, MI, USA42.331427 -83.045753842.143674499999996 -83.3684773 42.5191795 -82.7230303tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-6648362044601258662015-02-23T19:00:00.000-08:002015-02-26T15:03:17.251-08:00Cascade EffectI have made a cascade of small breakthroughs these last two months.<br />
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I needed to find out much more about my 3rd great grand-parents John and Dora Bickel. I looked back through the records to reconfirm names and such or find anything I had missed. I verified names and relationships for Elizabeth Bickel's parents. They are her parents only by deduction. I do know she had a brother Gus. Living cousins confirm this. I do know where she lived. But, oddly, I cannot find this woman's death certificate. I am still working on that, but it is bugging me I cannot find that. I wrote to the cemetery to see if they had any records. No reply. I'll try again with a phone call. But, in lieu of that route I was combing what I had to see if I confirm their identities another way. In my scrutiny, I discovered there was in in indeed something I had missed. <br />
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On <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=87167272" target="_blank">John C. Bickel's headstone</a> there was a symbol of some sort. Even when I zoomed in I couldn't be sure of what it said. I searched for grave markers symbol websites- there were several that told me I was looking at the the symbol of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Army_of_the_Republic" target="_blank">Grand Army of the Republic</a> on his side of the tombstone. It was a fraternal organization for men who fought and were honorably discharged from the Union Army during the Civil War. I don't know why, but I had never considered that this particular immigrant would have been been in the war.<br />
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Although my subscription at fold3 has run out, was I was about to scout around enough to find that although there was more than one John Bickel (its its variations) that had served in the Union Army, there was only one who had a widow of Johanna. Now, I knew from <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=87167238" target="_blank">death records that are referenced on her find a grave entry </a>(that I only know about 3rd hand-- have to get the originals someday), that even though she was called Dorothea after marriage, her name was in Johanna Dorothea. Maybe Johann didn't like calling his wife the feminine variant of his name, Johanna. I don't know. But armed with the pension number Infantry Regiment, I could keep going.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John C. Bickel card from General Index of Pension Files</td></tr>
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On Familysearch.org (while in bed on my iPhone, I must admit) I found a large, beautiful record from the Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. The highlights of this record are that he was Lutheran, had a son in Frontenac, Kansas, and joined in Ohio etc. Well, Frontenac is a good sign, the rest pretty good. Only problem is other than this record, I cannot find a record of him having a son Christoph. Maybe a son in law? Maybe a grandson? Maybe one of his son's middle names? In any case, I have to admit the discrepancy.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">John Christopher Bickel, 1901; citing p. 11859, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">U. S. National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And a hernia, poor guy.</td></tr>
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With that pension number in hand and the details in two forms of handwriting, I ordered his pension record from the National Records and Records Administration ($80!!) even though I was not 100% positive this was my guy. It arrived so quickly (<a href="http://www.polandorprussia.com/2014/03/the-long-wait.html" target="_blank">which was not the case when I got the record of Wojciech Witkowski aka George Wolff</a>). I have not combed through it all yet, but I have learned the nature of his wound in the Civil War. He took a musket ball in the left calf during the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia.<br />
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In this pension record, I got to see a murky maiden name. At first blush it looked like Bairr, but looking at his two styles of letter E, I went to bed that night thinking Baier. With the her name and the date of the marriage and now the exact town of marriage, I felt like I was cooking with gas.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Extract of John Christoph Bickel Pension Record</td></tr>
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Luckily, I get another shot at it in another part of the pension record.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Widow's Pension of Johanna Dorothea Baier Bickel</td></tr>
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I can't recall how I searched first, but I was flopping around looking for Lutheran churches and just generally not being smart (maybe because it was before 5 a.m on a weekday). I set it aside and started fresh with a better technique and found what I needed right away. First off the knowledge that the "German United Evangelical Church of Etna in 1852" was the same church as the modern day First Congregational Church (Etna, Pa.). From there, found their archives of marriage, burials, and <br />
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baptisms taken from a microfiche and made into pdf files on the University of Pittsburgh Library website. Right where it should be, was the record of the marriage in German. Now I got my IB (International Baccalaureate) sticker on my high school diploma for German and I am not bad with the old style script; however, this text is so very faint. I had my guesses but I brought it to a friend who is a master German linguist and familiar with Pennsylvania area to boot. She did do better than I and I felt good to get confirmation on my guesses. We think the places names are Lengenfeld (but which one we don't know) and Magdeburg. Someday maybe I will make my way to the church for the original and hope it is not as faded. It's a gamble.<br />
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And of course I am now on to finding the families in Magdeburg and Lengenfeld. Look at this lovely panorama of Magdeburg.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blick_von_der_Johanniskirche_11.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Blick_von_der_Johanniskirche_11.jpg">Blick von der Johanniskirche 11</a>" by <a class="external text" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/diwan/" rel="nofollow">Diwan</a> - <span class="int-own-work">Own work</span>, <a class="external text" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/diwan/5512725862/in/set-72157594345005899/" rel="nofollow">Magdeburg: Blick von der Johanniskirche</a>. Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0" title="Creative Commons Attribution 2.0">CC BY 2.0</a> via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/">Wikimedia Commons</a>.</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">National Archives and Records Administration. </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;"> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"United States National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938," index and images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VH4N-SK5 : accessed 23 January 2015), John Christopher Bickel, 1901; citing p. 11859, Leavenworth, Kansas, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1749 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 260; FHL microfilm 1,579,075.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">Ancestry.com. </span><em style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;">U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;"> [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">NARA citation for the pension will go here...my gosh its another multi page document on how to cite...</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">First Congregational Church, Etna, Pa. Records, AIS.1989.11, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh</span></span></li>
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Here is what I got out of it but I am really struggling:<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f3; line-height: 19px;">I, the undersigned, joined in marriage Wojeich Witkowski son of Jozef? and Maryann? of [the] fam[ily] SZUBERKOWOKICH??? [from] Haczów W. Kr. [West of Krakow?] Pol.[and] G?b. Brzozówka. and Maryanna Rychlicka [daughter of] Woprscha and Juliann? Rychlickiski{or RYCHLICKISH}{do those sound like Rylewska?} this Fourth-teenth {haha} day of November 1899 </span><br /><span style="background-color: #f8f8f3; line-height: 19px;">Witnesses ?ow Poshovicz?? Teodor Ryshlicki Rev J Kruszyuski?? Priest</span></span><br />
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I believe that George was born on April 26 (or 23rd) 1872 in Poland. I do not know his mother or father's name. I believe he immigrated to the United States when he was 16 years old in 1892 by way of rotterdam, Holland in New York. In August of 1898 he joined the Troop L (a supply troop), 8th Regiment of U.S. Cavalry. George worked as some sort of tailor. George was honorably discharged in May of 1899.<br />
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George married Mary Rylichicka in 1900. George applied for naturalization before 1904. George was granted a soldiers naturalization in October of 1904. The couple began having children right away. Their eldest, Konrad, was born in 1902. And then ... On George's x number child, Alicia, Alicya 's birth certificate, her father is is listed is as Wojciech Wolf. And they live at 22 Ayers Court. On George's naturalization paperwork, one year previous George lists 22 Aris Court. But, George's birth location is listed as Russia.<br />
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I learned that Wojciech, although not necessarily accurate Anglicization, is often transformed to Albert. Later in life, George went by George Albert Wolff.<br />
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On his x number son in 1913, Edmund, the birth certificate also stated his name was Wojciech Wolf. Sadly, George lost his son Edmund aka "Eddie"from a ruptured appendix when Eddie was only 22 years old. On Eddie's death certificate in 1935, George is recorded as being from Germany. And, Wojciech Wolf has been replaced with George Wolff.<br />
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<br />Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-92171497276580799302014-03-01T03:00:00.001-08:002014-03-01T03:00:54.559-08:00The Long WaitUPS notification service told me I had a package from <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">VA VBA EAO 05 313 SUP SVCS24. Totally obvious what that is, right? Not me either. I hadn't ordered anything. The package arrived -not large but on the heavy side. Full of paper. </span><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oh. My. Gosh. It's the veterans file of George Wolff- the Spanish American war vet- the rough rider. The tailor. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I had done a FOIA request after the service record was not found in those archives where they normally are. I had submitted the request in June if 2013. And now it was finally here. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I now have:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His village of birth in Poland. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His wife's maiden name, her exact birthdate, her parents names. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I also have the church where they got married and the exact date of their marriage.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The birthdates of all their children.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two affidavits from people they " knew all their lives" that attended their wedding. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Eye color, height, weight, ( he was only 5'4") </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I also know now that he suffered a stroke while gardening. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Things I expected to find in there but did not:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">His parents names.</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">More info on his actual time in service. The one paper that relates to that is entirely illegible- the orginal dark or shiny somehow - the photocopy I can pull out the words "faithful" and "Cuba". </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Overall I'm thrilled! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha4U3BmHepw_rCms364w9ZaQDqA6TlkW30OQ2mfC8ifRrdOnlPFvAl1q_7Q7WIJpv7U-l3GhWZVgTGpU3DhRujKzE1RQMcwbo5pjyTz7pwR8TCSyA3666FG3UC2nbVJzcBUtH_57lZv-b_/s640/blogger-image-202680264.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha4U3BmHepw_rCms364w9ZaQDqA6TlkW30OQ2mfC8ifRrdOnlPFvAl1q_7Q7WIJpv7U-l3GhWZVgTGpU3DhRujKzE1RQMcwbo5pjyTz7pwR8TCSyA3666FG3UC2nbVJzcBUtH_57lZv-b_/s640/blogger-image-202680264.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSmk2qU-iWJaC3bANnoXNhjVIQBgREXDr19Jx6rort3SaAr8bf-7n1otUzjCTH4tQfNxAS_AL2XCqh32opEqSy6ZCC-AlswGjI-OkN-nRoi_qvB4HOEWUvmG0cfzvqcMh0FDFVN_bZx4iX/s640/blogger-image-327146695.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSmk2qU-iWJaC3bANnoXNhjVIQBgREXDr19Jx6rort3SaAr8bf-7n1otUzjCTH4tQfNxAS_AL2XCqh32opEqSy6ZCC-AlswGjI-OkN-nRoi_qvB4HOEWUvmG0cfzvqcMh0FDFVN_bZx4iX/s640/blogger-image-327146695.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div>Made me giggle:</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Is there an official or church record of your marriage: yes</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">If yes, where: in the church</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It's as if my husband filled out the form. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div>Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-69545955027780512252013-11-29T14:36:00.002-08:002013-11-29T14:38:38.011-08:00Family Traditions: Galaretka Wieprzowa AKA Pig Jelly<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We began talking about holiday traditions when were working in the kitchen while preparing Thanksgiving meal. My husband recounted how his Grandmother Wolff (Delores Spanheimer) was such a wonderful cook. He remembered that during the holidays she would make three different kinds of cookies- familiar to us all- Pffeffernuesse, Almond Crescents, and Ice Box Cookies. My husbands father also loved to eat one of Grandma Wolff's more savory treats Siltz. He described it as pork in clear gelatin. My husband smiled as he remember how his father would eagerly await a new batch (molded in loaf pans) and slice up the loaves into rectangles to fit on on a Saltine cracker. Then, he would bring some fresh pepper on top and gobble it up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Maybe I would try to make this for the family? It sounded intriguing. I began looking looking for a recipe to approximate the dish. I first had to try a variety of spellings. On of my first results was from Google Books, called <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=gbRH1bScT5kC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=siltz&f=false" target="_blank">Mneme's Place:Book One</a> by Glenn P. Wolfe. I giggle at the last name and went on to read the passage in question on page 233:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Siltz, for sure. Whatever else the contents, mason jar up to the lid with shimmering gelatin studded with cubes of fatty pink pork. And, to go with the silts, slices of pumpernickel or a heel a rye bread. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This seemed pretty close to what my husband had described. And I could completely understand poring hot pork gelatin into mason jars since they'd be fine under the initial heat. And, even more promising, I now had at least one spelling to work with. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I looked for recipes all over the web that would match, but nothing under that name or variation of that name. Just looking for a pork gelatin dish, I found a <a href="http://www.recipe4living.com/recipes/pork_gelatin.htm" target="_blank">likely candidate</a> from a recipe site I wasn't familiar with. The contributor thankfully included his or her source material, a local publication called <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/whats-cooking-in-niles/oclc/36347776" target="_blank">What's Cooking in Niles.</a> When I went back to Google books to investigate this book found that it was published by a Greek Orthodox church in Niles, IL. The book, which I have not seen or held, was published in 1989 by the <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Holy Taxiarchai and Saint Haralambos Church</span>, likely as a fundraising effort. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course I couldn't resist and I looked up the church right back into the search engine. When the little map automagically plotted to the right of the search results, it was I've never been but have poured over so many census records in that area that all the place names seemed all too familiar- outside Chicago. I plotted it on the full Google map and then turned on my Google Saved Places called Wolff genealogy. Right there in front of me were the 1930 homes of several members of the family, including Grandma Delores Wolff, within 10 miles of the <a href="http://www.saintharalambosgoc.org/" target="_blank">church</a>. I have no way of knowing if this was her recipe included, but I'd like to think that because they lived in that community, I might now have a recipe that may be a fair approximation of what she might of made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By this time I don't know if this was originally a Greek dish pick dup by the Poles, or a Polish dish picked up by the Greeks or neither of the above scenarios. But I did find some commercial products listed <a href="http://www.mojedeli.com/index.php?id_product=123&controller=product" target="_blank">here</a> - looks like Polish to me. I didn't know how to pronounce Galaretka Wieprzowa, but I clicked <a href="http://translate.google.com/#pl/en/Galaretka%20Wieprzowa" target="_blank">listen to it</a> on at the left window of Google Translate. With a new name, I found images that looked right on and a <a href="http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/polishmaincourses/r/Jellied-Pigs-Feet-Recipe.htm" target="_blank">better(?) recipe</a> under the Eastern European subheading. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, after this research, I think its a lot like headcheese with yet missing the cooking the pigs head part, just the hooves and other meaty chunks. </span>Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0Niles, IL, USA42.0189191 -87.80284019999999141.9245636 -87.96420169999999 42.1132746 -87.6414787tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-84304901181348432482013-07-28T13:10:00.000-07:002013-07-28T13:10:00.460-07:00Sunday's Obituary: Edmund F. Wolff<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Many friends and relatives gathered in <a href="http://home.catholicweb.com/StAlexanderChurch/index.cfm/NewsItem?ID=339233" target="_blank">St. Alexander's Church of Vila Park</a> last Friday morning for the last tribute to Edmund F. Wolff of 202 South Third avenue who passed away on Tuesday, November 12, at Elmhurst hospital from infection resulting from a [r]uptured appendix. Requiem mass was celebrated by the Rev Father Kennedy, burial taking place in the <a href="http://www.polandorprussia.com/2013/07/tombstone-tuesday-george-eddie-and-teddy.html" target="_blank">family plot in St. Michael's cemetery at Wheaton</a>. </div>
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Edmond Wolff was born in Chicago, October 29, 1913, one of eight children born to George and Mary Wolff and had just passed his 22nd birthday when death came last week after but a few days illness. The family came to make their home in Lombard during his early infancy and he received his education at Sacred Heart and St. Alexander parochial schools- being a member of the first class graduated from the latter - and at York High school. He was employed at the Austin Laundry in Chicago. </div>
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He was especially devoted to his parents and other members of the family and his sudden passing came as a distinct shock to them. Of the immediate family surviving besides his parents are three brothers - Conrad of 1107 East Maple. Joseph of Villa Park, and Theodore at home. Also four sisters, Mrs. Alice Fleck of Villa Park, Mrs. Emily Abrms of Chicago, Adele and Beatrice at home. </div>
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Are you a novice like me and wondering how I got this? Between Find a Grave and Illinois Death and Birth Indexes I was able to get his birth and death date. Death dates often didn't match across sources. Then I found that a wonderful soul had, at one time, made an index of all the deaths reported in the Lombard Spectator. That paper had been bought and bought and I tracked the current owners down on Facebook.They reported that their very own archives didn't go back this far and to try a historical society or library. I pursued two tracks- I got an out-of-state library card to the Helen Plum Memorial Library and I contacted the Lombard Historical Society. While the Helen Plum Library didn't have online access to the Lombard Spectator, they did offer a span of years of the Chicago Tribune that I didn't previously have access to. It was an incredible boon! Meanwhile, the gracious archivist and I corresponded and she found this in the trays and snapped a photo for me. She actually recovered two obituaries- but I 'll save that one for another post. </div>
Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0Lombard, IL, USA41.8800296 -88.00784349999997941.7854406 -88.169204999999977 41.9746186 -87.84648199999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-39894535041743279652013-07-23T11:04:00.001-07:002022-03-03T17:39:54.833-08:00Tombstone Tuesday- George, Eddie and Teddy<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">George Albert Wolff</span> or <span style="color: #b45f06;">Albert Wojciech</span> was born in Poland in <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">April 23, 1876.</span> Even though this headstone is inscribed G. Wolff- George isn't buried there. The plot is for four, but only two are used. Of his many children, George lost his 22 year old son, <span style="color: #b45f06;">Edmund "Eddie" Wolff</span> to a<a href="http://www.polandorprussia.com/2013/07/sundays-obituary-edmund-f-wolff.html" target="_blank"> ruptured appendix in 1935</a>. <span style="color: #b45f06;">Theodore Wolff</span>, according to family oral stories, died in from an illness contracted in the Philippines while serving in the military in August 22 1946. </span></div>
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George Wolff, his wife <span style="color: #b45f06;">Mary Rylicki Wolff, </span>and his daughter <span style="color: #b45f06;">Adele Roselle Wolff</span> are <a href="http://wigenweb.org/vilas/cem/stp.html" target="_blank">buried in St Peters Cemetery in Eagle River, Wisconsin</a>. </div>
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Sorry I am late in sending you our first addition of our Shrine Temple News - But have been so busy getting my committees + appointments made that I have not had time to think. I have been gone Every night + working days it has been rough - Things are beginning to slow dow[n]. </div>
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How is everyone [?] Fine I hope. This leaves us all well. Daryll is in the Navy at San Diego + he sure likes it. don't think we will be able to get down this year but after we are out will try. We were in San Francisco for the East West game sure had a nice Time. </div>
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This letter was written by Raymond Hoover Dancy to his Uncle Gilbert Dancy. After Ray's parents perished in a murder/ suicide, Uncle Gilbert raised Ray for several years. </div>
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<br />Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0Phoenix, AZ, USA33.4483771 -112.0740372999999932.6020036 -113.36493079999998 34.2947506 -110.78314379999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-22313019387116989402013-07-14T05:41:00.000-07:002013-07-14T05:41:00.532-07:00Sunday's Obituary - ANOTHER VETERAN OF 1860 IS DEAD<br />
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Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0Spencer, NC, USA35.6923614 -80.43477999999998935.6407814 -80.515460999999988 35.743941400000004 -80.354098999999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8562516056020127162.post-19418814404519903162013-07-08T14:22:00.001-07:002022-03-03T17:24:02.880-08:00Madness Monday- Suicide After Shooting Wife in Divorce Row<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Elam Hoover Dancy was born in Cabarrus County, North Carolina to his 16 year old mother and his 25 year old father sometime in August of 1890. Elam, or sometimes called Elmer, would go on to be the eldest of 6 children. He had three sisters and two brothers. Elam's father, William Edward Dancy was a carpenter and sometimes worked apart from the family. Elam's mother, Teresa Roxanna Pethel, seems to be from tough stock also out of Cabarrus County. As a young man, Elam learned carpentry from his father and went with his father to the greater Dallas area, Texas. When Elam was 20 years old and working as a pattern maker in the carpentry trade he married a local Texas gal, Mabel Shanks who was almost 17 years old in 1908. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Elam and Mabel lived with Elam's father and sister in Dallas on 409 Peabody Street. The young couple had their first child in 1909. Perhaps through complications of childbirth, Mabel dies that same year at about 18 years old. Their son, William Hoover Dancy, dies at only 11 months old from whooping cough. Mother and son are buried together in a plot for three in Oakland Cemetery with no marker. After Elam buries his infant son in May of 1910, he marries the 14 year old Texas native, Lillie Mae White. Lillie had already bore him a son (William Elmer) before they were wed in September of 1909. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Elam and Lillie go one to have four more children-Jacob Lee Roy, a boy who perished at about 7 months old, Raymond Hoover, and Dorothy Dell. The family chases the lumber trade. Between 1910 and 1914 they live and work in Caddo Parrish, Louisiana. In 1915 they are living in the the small town of Peach in Wood County, Texas. The town doesn't exist today. After the lumber was exhausted the rail didn't stop anymore. The rail line was repeatedly broken into smaller segments but the majority was never bought or run again. Elam's father dies at only 55 years old during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919. By 1920 they've moved on again and are living in Harrison County, Texas in the absolute poorest part of town where he works as a millwright. By 1922, they have moved again and are living back in Shreveport, Caddo Parrish, Louisiana. Elam's mother, Teresa, moves in with her eldest son. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;">SHREVEPORT, La., June 27 (UP).—After firing three shots into his wife, seriously wounding her, as she stood In the backyard of her home, E. H. Dancy, 37, carpenter, walked into the bathroom and shot a bullet into his own head. He is expected to die.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;">A six-year-old daughter of the couple, Dorothy, was the only witness to the double shooting.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 15px; text-align: left;">Dancy was at liberty on bond for stabbing his wife last April. Mrs. Dancy was suing for divorce.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">**PETITION OF SEPARATION: There is a record of Lillie Mae Dancy’s separation filing dated May 16, 1927 (she was murdered June 28, 1927). MRS. L. M. Dancy VS E. H. Dancy. PETITION: TO THE HONORABLE THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR THE PARRISH OF CADDO LOUISIANA. The petition states that Lillie May was married to E. H. Dancy on October 2, 1910 in the city of Dallas, Texas. There were four children born of said marriage: Jacob Leroy, age 15, William Elmer, age 13, Raymond, age 9, and Dorothy Dell, age. 6. Excerpt: “Petitioner further shows that she has always been a kind and dutiful wife to her said husband but that regardless of his marriage vows, he has since their marriage been guilt of adultery, committed at various times and particularly on or about the 15th day of April, 1927,at 722 Caddo Street, in this City, with a woman whose name is unknown to your petitioner. Petitioner avers that because of the shameful conduct of her said husband and the dishonor which he has brought upon her name, she, desires to secure a divorce “A vincula matrimonii and to obtain the custody of her minor children Jacob Leroy, age 15 and William Elmer, age 13. Petitioners further represents that there exists no community and if same does exists, does waive and relinquish any rights, titles or interest she may have in same into and in favor of her said husband E. H. Dancy. WHEREFORE petitioner prays that she may be authorized to institute and prosecute this action that the house No 3011 on Alabama Avenue, in this city be assigned to her as a domicile pending this suit…”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Other documents can viewed in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dedrawolff/sets/72157634541645417/" target="_blank">Elam (Elmer) Hoover Dancy's gallery</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-small;">The petition of separation from the Caddo County Courthouse. (I don't know how to cite that properly yet). </span><br />
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I addressed it to "the relatives of...A". I knew A had passed away nearly 30 years prior, but I hoped, as the white pages indicated, that folks who loved him and knew him still lived there. A's wife M still lived there! She and her son E were pleased and excited to get my letter. I had included a college photo of A. M called me the same day she got the letter and sounded just lovely. I called back and we spoke for about 30 minutes. In the following week E and I exchanged some pictures. We were able to fill in some blanks for each other. These are just some of the pictures E shared. <br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMLPHKA1az7Agi3fxG6tNScEh0HYjaLpPueulh5acPXOMf3aC52Ndv2-JFxw8Pno3RUcjcyFM9Boh5SFk-GRGbnjJYY44HJ3378gmNTOIlS4cNBHxc1ZZbl_wIVJxq8TTsDm5-V9Rc4V9W/s640/blogger-image--1871038918.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMLPHKA1az7Agi3fxG6tNScEh0HYjaLpPueulh5acPXOMf3aC52Ndv2-JFxw8Pno3RUcjcyFM9Boh5SFk-GRGbnjJYY44HJ3378gmNTOIlS4cNBHxc1ZZbl_wIVJxq8TTsDm5-V9Rc4V9W/s640/blogger-image--1871038918.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQXfwFau2zLN4ZNoW-PyKxU1JpGM0E-jB-EQ9wb5z3eLT9iLMqpfE-nnhyND7tkIpq0MM3ooMMgpR9ljQ-y01MSb2RHOzOLOnBz1as-NNnMoFYXxyKpQKbVvHcTFlwq8wTFnzc1vvT5Pr/s640/blogger-image-1022230619.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQXfwFau2zLN4ZNoW-PyKxU1JpGM0E-jB-EQ9wb5z3eLT9iLMqpfE-nnhyND7tkIpq0MM3ooMMgpR9ljQ-y01MSb2RHOzOLOnBz1as-NNnMoFYXxyKpQKbVvHcTFlwq8wTFnzc1vvT5Pr/s640/blogger-image-1022230619.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6g98EIaqE7AXCM3t0aNSIpCpKPEcD8gkuX1-dmQGi9o034X2wYHf3yjgpJ0N9F8GpZKp3pgbOT1kheBLDYqgejyrtvrdbVRxNuNc7jvh8ALt_5IsU4rP3WdiaHiWhrwx7os0pfiAKB_Uq/s640/blogger-image-183012283.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6g98EIaqE7AXCM3t0aNSIpCpKPEcD8gkuX1-dmQGi9o034X2wYHf3yjgpJ0N9F8GpZKp3pgbOT1kheBLDYqgejyrtvrdbVRxNuNc7jvh8ALt_5IsU4rP3WdiaHiWhrwx7os0pfiAKB_Uq/s640/blogger-image-183012283.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv4Dnhy3l6U5nGsRkFTHzgXkY8QmoQEoj5vhrp8zNOZNXTjf-UpdminabROIEWNZMGf7Lj-fEQAJ7CRW7AGIjg448BiLfUVyJJDR2NhDIa5_fzk1ZOpaN8BlXntyAE1_ruza_ykoupOdE1/s640/blogger-image-420772981.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv4Dnhy3l6U5nGsRkFTHzgXkY8QmoQEoj5vhrp8zNOZNXTjf-UpdminabROIEWNZMGf7Lj-fEQAJ7CRW7AGIjg448BiLfUVyJJDR2NhDIa5_fzk1ZOpaN8BlXntyAE1_ruza_ykoupOdE1/s640/blogger-image-420772981.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Because E mentioned a cabin in the town of Eagle River, Wisconsin, I was finally able to place George Wolff in time and space. Not only did he pass there, his wife submitted a veteran headstone application. This document finally gave me his pension number which allowed me to order George's pension claim from his time in the Calvary during the Spanish American War. 80$ and 63 days later, I should have this paperwork from the National Records Administration. </div>Dedra Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17198054693788247396noreply@blogger.com0