Benjamin Maynard, Civil War Veteran
November 4, 2023 No Comments
My Dad and I visited ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ where more than twenty cousins from my paternal grandmotherโs side are buried. There was a directory and map at the entrance which made it easy for us to find their graves. ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ท๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐ป ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ was a Civil War veteran who fought for the North. He enlisted in the Union […]
Mark John Maynard
October 29, 2023 No Comments
I had a big breakthrough recently and can now trace my Maynard line back one more generation to my 5th great-grandfather with the help of DNA testing. All thanks to this man! If you have an elderly parent or grandparent, this is exactly why a DNA test is just as important as documenting their oral […]
P.J. Swenson
October 27, 2023 No Comments
My great-grandmother Clara wrote in her journal about her uncle ๐๐ผ๐ต๐ป ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ป who lived in Carver, Minnesota. The first image is an old photograph she had of him seated next to my great-great-grandfather dated โMarch 20, 1904.โ On the back is written โCarl Gรถran Swenson and his brother John Swenson of Carver.โ She called him […]
Carl Gรถran Svensson
October 25, 2023 No Comments
This is a portrait of my great-great-grandfather ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น ๐๐ผฬ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฆ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐๐ผ๐ป. He was born to Sara Greta Jรถnsdotter and Sven Persson on December 18, 1831 in Hรถgstad, Mjรถlby, รstergรถtland, Sweden. He immigrated to America in 1883. He was an expert carpenter, cabinetmaker, and furniture maker. His son Carl Erick, known by his nickname โCharlie,โ was a […]
Lubbert Lubbertsen van Westervelt
October 23, 2023 No Comments
Never knew until recently that I have a sixth great-grandparent of Dutch descent. The problem with the ethnicity estimate from Ancestry is they group Netherlands under ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ & ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ. Yet even if Netherlands was separated from the 5% ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ & ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฉ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ in my admixture, it might only be half a percent anyway. Nevertheless, […]
James Maynard (1750-1852) of Virginia and Descendants
October 21, 2023 No Comments
I’ve been searching for this rare, out-of-print book for a long time! It contains information about ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ, my 6th great-granduncle. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War under Captain Jesse Franklin and Colonel Benjamin Cleveland. Finally found a copy for sale on eBay. Months ago, I had set up an alert to […]
William Riley Maynard, Spanish-American War Veteran
October 19, 2023 No Comments
This is a colorized photograph of my 1st cousin (three generations removed), ๐ช๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ. He was an officer in the United States Army who served during the ๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ต-๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฟ. The conflict originated while Cuba was in a war for independence from Spain. After violence between Cuban rebels and pro-Spanish loyalists escalated on January 12, […]
Marion Crider and Naomi “Oma” Maynard
October 18, 2023 No Comments
The first image is a portrait of my great-great-grandparents from my paternal grandmotherโs side: ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ and ๐ก๐ฎ๐ผ๐บ๐ถ โ๐ข๐บ๐ฎโ ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ. Both were originally from Eastern Kentucky. Marion was born on June 30, 1856 while Oma was born on November 8, 1863. She belonged to the ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ of Appalachia. After the Civil War, her family […]
Johan Hรฅkansson
October 14, 2023 3 Comments
My great-great-grandfather Johan Hรฅkansson was 17 years old when he emigrated from Sweden to America in 1875. He embarked from Gothenburg on a steamship and settled as a farmer in Minnesota. I finally found the Gothenburg passenger list for my great-great-grandfather Johan Hรฅkansson who emigrated from Virestad, Kronoberg, Smรฅland, Sweden to America in 1875. This […]
Herman Hokanson
October 13, 2023 No Comments
This is the last known photograph of my great-grandfather, ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ป. He was the eldest of six children born to John and Mathilda Hokanson. He was 8 years old when his father purchased more than 200 acres of land in Todd county, one mile south of Bertha, Minnesota, where the Hokanson family moved in the […]