Category Archives: Blanchard

Sketch – Albert B. Chase

Blanchard Project Utterstrom/Chase Research by Don Taylor It is so good when everything comes together during an initial inquiry into an ancestor. To me, an initial inquiry includes finding birth, marriage, and death records for the individual, plus following the … Continue reading

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Halverson’s Arrive in the States

Blanchard Project Blanchard-Utterstrom-Halvorsen I love Henry Louis Gates’ television show, “Finding Your Roots.” In the show, he takes a famous person and leads the person on a genealogical journey through a “Book of Life,” where he shares that key, or important, … Continue reading

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Death Date found in a City Directory

Blanchard Project Blanchard/Utterström Sometimes the information you are looking for just doesn’t exist. I had been looking for a death record for Oscar William Utterström and had looked everywhere. Pretty much every death record source and death index source I … Continue reading

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Ancestor Bio – Hannah M Halvorsen (1866-c. 1930)

52 Ancestors – Week 2019-04 Blanchard Project Utterstrom-Halvorsen By Don Taylor Sometimes, search as you will, some key bit of information just doesn’t seem to be out there. Such is the case of the death of Hannah (Halvorsen) Utterstrom.  I’ve … Continue reading

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Ancestor Sketch – Olaf Utterstrom

52 Ancestors – Week Blanchard-Utterstrom Project 2018 By Don Taylor Sometimes census records can be confusing.  Such was the case for me regarding Olaf Utterstrom.  In 1910 and 1920 he was at 24 Olympia Street and in 1930 he was … Continue reading

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