Sometimes it’s hard to write these posts. We lost cousin Dan Nelson far too young. Dan was born on April 14, 1962 to Leslie and Louise Link Nelson in Tulsa, Oklahoma. On this, his birthday, I wanted to share a few pictures of Dan from the early 1970s.
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Posts about family history/genealogy.
Maria Kulhmann was born on April 7, 1894 in Bokel, Germany. She is Walt’s 1st cousin twice removed. Her mother was Maria Elisabeth Wellman, Gerhard Wellman’s sister. I found out a bit about her from the ship’s manifest from her emigration from Germany.
Anna Redmond was born on March 31, 1833 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania to Thomas Allen and Catherine Moore Redmond. She was Walt’s great-grandmother.
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.
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!
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.
Dorothy Ann Hoel was born to Orville and Eleanor Johnson Hoel on February 24, 1941 in Mount Pleasant, Iowa. She is Walt’s cousin.
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.