1940 Draft Continued Courier TribuneThursday, November 21, 1940page 1 Draft Order(Official List Continued) 51 Wilbur Louis Roeder52 Virgil Elmer Brockman53 Walter Stauffer54 Vincent Frank Wessel55 Gerald Edwin Wiggins56 Raymond Clarence Shaffer57 George Darrel Hawley58 Bernard Frances Runnebaum59 Ferdinand Henry Niehues60 Sylvester Joseph Wietharn61 Edward john Hasenkamp62 William Joseph Flaherty63 Elmer Walter Allen64 Willis Eugene Barnes65 …
Month: April 2022
Friday Finds – Minnick Biography
Do you have lots of handwritten notes in your genealogy files? I know that I do. And many of those notes are from sources that are now digitized. Having recently researched the descendants of John Minnick, I started looking at my old Minnick notes. The first document I opened was notes from the book, Portrait …
Lewis Crandall
Lewis Crandall [L4WP-BLJ]was born on 19 Aug 1807 in New York.1–2 He married Almira Nafus about 1830.3 He held the office of trustee in 1833 in Seneca Township, Seneca, Ohio, United States.4 On 13 Jun 1833, Jane Crandall was born in Seneca, Ohio, United States.5 On 24 Jun 1836, Salome Adell Crandall was born in …
Crandall Deeds
Lewis Crandall died sometime before May 1852 when the first entry for his estate occurs in the probate records for Van Buren County, Iowa. Many of the probate entries discuss his land. Thus, the deed records are needed to help document the family. The first entry I've found for Lewis Crandall in the Van Buren …
Crandall Probate
What's your dream of a 'perfect' probate record? Is it a will naming all of the children in order of their birth? I know that identifying the children would be a major aspect of a perfect probate record. When it comes to Lewis Crandall's probate record, it is not one concise document but spread over …
Emma
Have you ever thought about 'guiding stars' when it comes to your genealogy research? When I first started doing research, my 'guiding stars' were basically information from others. At first, this was my grandmothers and great aunts. As I dug deeper, my 'guiding stars' were family group sheets, IGI records, printed genealogies and even biographies …
GeneaMeme
Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:1) Participate in the Ancestors GeneaMeme created by Jill Ball on the Geniaus blog back in 2011! The list should be annotated in the following manner: Things you have already done or found: bold face typeThings …
Saturday Tidbits
1940 Draft Numbers from page 1 of the November 18, 1940 issue of The Courier-Tribune First Blanks This WeekTo the Draftees Questionnaires Will Likely Start into the Mails Wednesday The Nemaha county draft board will send the first federal draft questionnaires to “draftees” this week probably starting with 50 on Wednesday.The county has a total …
Frink Diary
Some years ago, I was sent a typed copy of Nettie Frink's diary. At the time I received the diary, I only recognized my great-grandfather's name, Charles Mentzer, in the diary. However, after researching the descendants of John Minnick, I now realize that Nettie Frink is my first cousin 3 times removed. Below is Nettie's …
Lebanon, Oregon
Photo Stirs ‘Lebanon of Yore’ Memories By Jo Sommer Memories of yore have certainly been stirred by the “Lebanon of Yore” picture printed in the Jan. 5 express (page 11). By combining facts given by several informants in telephone conversations, we have compiled a story to go with the picture. R is reprinted here to …