Category Archives: Ancestor Sketch
Ancestor Sketch – Johann Jakob Huber (1850–1926)
For eleven years, Johann Jakob Huber stood behind an impenetrable brick wall. A single page from the Bürger-Familienregister der Kirchgemeinde Stadel has shattered it. Now we know he was born 5 February 1850 in Pfündlauf, Zürich — a farmer, a father of seven, and the man who kept all but one child from leaving Switzerland. Continue reading
Amanda Taft Whitney (1798–1872): An Ancestor Sketch
Born in Massachusetts in 1798 and carried west as an infant by her migrating family, Amanda Taft Whitney spent her life in Broome County, New York — raising ten children and outliving most of her generation. Her story is unusually well-documented. Read on to meet a woman the census records refused to forget. Continue reading
Posted in Ancestor Sketch, Family Lines, New York Genealogy, Massachusetts Genealogy, Roberts-Barnes, Geographic Genealogy, Ancestor Features
Tagged Broome County NY, 1800 Census, Sharon Schoharie County New York, Taft Family, Triangle Broome County New York, Asa Taft, 1850 Census, Partridgefield Massachusetts, Hinsdale Massachusetts, 1865 New York State Census, 1855 New York State Census, Amanda Taft Whitney, New England Migration, Chauncey Whitney, 4th Grand-Aunt, Ancestor Sketch, Sarah Whitney Taft
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Inga Maria “Mary” (Person) Krafve (1866-1905)
She crossed an ocean and left almost no trace — at least not at first glance. But look carefully, and Maria Person Krafve steps forward: a Swedish immigrant who built a family on two frontiers, bore seven children, and died at thirty-eight, far from
the forests of Värmland where she was born. Continue reading
Posted in Ancestor Sketch, Matson Project
Tagged Troy Idaho, Augustana Lutheran Church, Genealogy Research, Swedish Americans, Minneapolis Minnesota, 19th Century Immigration, Hennepin County Minnesota, Swedish Lutheran, Joseph Alvar Krafve, Teamster, Maria Person Krafve, 1900 US Census, Östmark Parish, FindAGrave, Dalsland Sweden, Värmland Sweden, Family History, Latah County Idaho
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Ancestor Sketch – Anna Maria Dürst (1770–1858)
Anna Maria Dürst was born in 1770 in Diesbach, Glarus, Switzerland — a mountain canton that would shape her world for nearly nine decades. She married Bernhard Trümpi in 1806 and raised a family in Ennetbühls. If Patrick Wild’s research holds, her ancestry may trace all the way back to Charlemagne. Continue reading