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Genealogy, family lore, memoirs, and so forth.

Happy Birthday Great- Grandma Anna Redmond Fisher

Anna Redmond was born on March 31, 1833 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania to Thomas Allen and Catherine Moore Redmond. She was Walt’s great-grandmother.

Happy birthday Stacy Pollpeter

Stacy Pollpeter was born on March 24, 1906 to John and Catherine Boeding Pollpeter in West Point, Iowa. He married Rose Brune on November 23, 1937. Rose is Walt’s second cousin twice removed.

Great Aunt Kathryn Link

We mentioned Kathryn a couple of times in other posts. Most recently we featured her and her cousin Helen in this post. Kathryn was the fourth child born to Isadore and Teresa Kempker Link, born on April 10, 1890 in West Point.

Erbswurst: Family History On the Table

We always enjoy when our interests come together in a cool way. We are both interested in history, including military history and (obviously) family history. Both of us love cooking and experimenting with food. We also like to camp. So when we found a couple of videos about Erbswurst, we had to go down that rabbit hole!

Keeping track of the actual photographs

I’ve talked in a couple of previous posts about the challenges of keeping track of all the information and the photographs that we have for our family history. My post about the photographs covered the digital side of organizing. Now we needed to come up with a storage and organizing solution for the actual photographs.

Happy birthday Cousin Dorothy!

Dorothy Ann Hoel was born to Orville and Eleanor Johnson Hoel on February 24, 1941 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. She is Walt’s cousin.

Happy Birthday Gertrude Clemens Brune!

On this day in 1908, Gertrude Clemens was born to Frank and Josephine Krueger Clemens in West Point, Iowa. Gertrude lived in West Point her entire life.

Happy birthday, Grandpa Link!

William John Link, Walt’s grandfather, was born on February 10, 1884, in West Point to Isadore and Teresa Kempker Link. He was born in the Kempker family home above the store as told in this post. The Links lived on a farm outside of West Point.

Celebrating an anniversary of really shirttail relations

Sometimes it is easy to dive way, way too deep into the family history research. We’ve talked about shirt tail relations in a couple of other posts – here and here. Well, I think we may have found one of the most shirttail relations on the tree.

So who did Rhoda Hole marry?

In last week’s family history post, I talked about a relationship mix up for one of Walt’s great-great aunts. We had originally thought Rhoda had married a man named John Christy. Turns out that was another Rhoda Hole. So now we had to figure out who our Rhoda Hole had married.

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