I was updating more pages tonight and I started down a winding path to more discoveries (as usual). As I was transferring census pages from their html versions to WordPress, I looked at the Billing/s family in 1871 and realized two things. 1. I have never found Edward and Elinor in 1881, and 2. I … Read more
October 2001 Met some new Schmachtenberger cousins online. One of them, Pat Schmachtenberger Kiel, emailed me some great information that she had about the earliest Schmachtenbergers–Adolph’s father, Adam, and Adam’s father who was born on a ship sailing to America in 1745. There’s an article that says once the child was born on the ship, … Read more
We went to visit my dad and Aunt “up north” in Michigan. They surprised me with these great family pictures. This one is the Rushton family in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada, around 1900. Cora Ann (b. 1876), Horace Holroyd (b. 1879), Bertha Estelle, my great-grandmother (b. 1881), Eliza Jane Schmachtenberger Rushton (b. 1850), husband Hiram … Read more