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igor
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howdy, cousin!
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Jul 29 21:38 UTC 1991 |
dont know if this will work, but here goes..
i was wondering if people would be willing to list the last names
of their ancesters, (all that they know) and possibly the
area they lived in.
maybe you could find a "cousin" you never knew you had.
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igor
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response 1 of 43:
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Jul 29 21:42 UTC 1991 |
ray from missouri and genesee county
richardson from missouri
hart from hillsdale and genesee
lickly, treat, dithmars(sp?) from hillsdale and lenawee counties
there is more, but i cant remember at the moment.
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polygon
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response 2 of 43:
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Jul 29 21:58 UTC 1991 |
KESTNBAUM (Budapest Hungary, NYC, Chicago)
WEINTRAUB (Budapest)
KAROLI (Budapest)
SAVEREIDE (town of similar name in Norway; Estherville IA and other Iowa
and/or Minnesota small towns)
DIETRICH (Cassville WI, earlier from Beaver County PA)
FEST (Cassville WI, from Germany)
JESKY (shortening of longer Polish name, Marinette WI, from a part
of Poland that was in Prussia as of 1872)
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jep
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response 3 of 43:
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Jul 29 22:19 UTC 1991 |
Perry from Mecosta County, MI and Germany
Miller from Davenport, Iowa
Austin from Lansing, MI
Eiman from Lansing, MI and England (I think)
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mcnally
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response 4 of 43:
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Jul 29 22:45 UTC 1991 |
My grandparents were originally: McNally, Riley, Morrison, and Burns.
Though there are a lot of Scottish Burns's and Morrisons, my forebears all
came from Ireland about 4 or 5 generations back. All of my grandparents
(and most of my great-granparents) came from Chicago.
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arabella
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response 5 of 43:
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Jul 29 23:44 UTC 1991 |
Hmmm.... Smith, from Yorkshire (I think)
Ryan, from somewhere in Ireland, later in NYC.
Kowalski, from Poland, later Northern New Jersey.
Semanski, from Torun in Poland (still some relatives in Krakow), then New
Jersey.
There's a couple of other names I forget. I'll have to call my sister
and ask her.
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ty
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response 6 of 43:
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Jul 30 00:26 UTC 1991 |
Zucker, from Frankenmuth, before that Gunzenhausen, Germany.
Block, from the same.
Sanders, Hmmm not sure on this one. My mom knows. I'll check.
Jones, same Jones family that Daniel Boone married into.
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marcvh
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response 7 of 43:
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Jul 30 00:32 UTC 1991 |
(ones I know offhand...)
VANHEYNINGEN, from Kent Co. and the Netherlands (I think Amsterdam)
DE VRIES (sp variable), from Kent. Co. and the Netherlands.
FREEMAN, from New Jersey, originally of Germany I think
HOLLISTER, likewise
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mta
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response 8 of 43:
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Jul 30 03:02 UTC 1991 |
Delaney--Ireland, New York
Kennedy--Ireland
Gibney-Ireland, New York
Ryan--Ireland, New York
DuRocher-France, Sherrington Quebuc, New York
Gagne--France, Quebec, New York
lots of others I can't bring to mind right off.
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arthur
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response 9 of 43:
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Jul 30 03:12 UTC 1991 |
Doehne -- Leipzig area of Germany
Steuding - Wilhelmshafen, ditto
Jensen -- Denmark (I have an uncle Georg) :-)
Haahr -- Denmark (Every Dane named Haahr is a relative of mine.)
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jenny
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response 10 of 43:
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Jul 30 08:00 UTC 1991 |
Gotshall -- Wisconsin, Germany
Knapstein -- Wisconsin, Germany
Knowles -- Wisconsin,
Randby -- Again WI
Brown -- Again WI
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mcnally
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response 11 of 43:
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Jul 30 08:11 UTC 1991 |
(where do the Clarks come from, then?)
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polygon
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response 12 of 43:
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Jul 31 10:33 UTC 1991 |
Re 11. Clark is her married name, silly. She's the same person who used
to be known as jennyg (Jenny Gotshall).
Re 7. Hollister is a prominent name in the Lansing area. There's a
Hollister Road in Clinton County, a state rep, and a couple members of the
Lansing Community College board named Hollister.
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brandon
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response 13 of 43:
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Jul 31 13:17 UTC 1991 |
Let's see:
Piziks - Latvia (Riga - you know, where they had a huge concentration camp
during World War II. *Just* what the Latvians wanted on their
doorstep.)
Bacon - Michigan for a loooooooooooooooooong time. Ultimately from England.
My grandmother thinks we're related to Sir Francis Bacon but hasn't
been able to prove it yet.
Drake - Michigan for an equally loooooooooooooooooooooooong time. From Wales
before that.
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joni
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response 14 of 43:
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Aug 1 17:58 UTC 1991 |
This item got me pretty interested, so I started asking my mom and dad
questions! So here goes :)
I have a lot of info on my mom's side, but to make it short I only
included last names. My great great Aunt Emily collected most of the
information from the church in Wisconsin.
Moms side
Klopp -- Luxemburg,Germany --Moved to Kenosha Wisc in 1878
Zoller -- Kenosha Wisc.
Treinen -- Prussia -- Moved to Kenosha Wisc.
McLeod -- Canada -- Moved to Rexton, Mi.
Derusha -- Canada -- Moved to Rexton, Mi.
Smith -- Michigan
Dad's side (don't know much about)
Vincent -- Garden Island MI.
Wachter -- Green Island MI.
Maudrie -- Buckingham Canada -- Moved to Mi in 1894
My Great Grandpa, Terrance Paul Maudrie (Terry) won the title of
world champion roller skate birler in 1907, and the world's birling
championship in 1915. It is reported that for 20 straight years
he never met his equal as a birler. He was 5'4" tall and at the
height of his career weighed only 115lbs.
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mcnally
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response 15 of 43:
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Aug 1 19:27 UTC 1991 |
According to my dictionary, "birling" is that lumberjack game you
see where two guys try to spin each other off a log. How the heck
does that extend to include roller skates?
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igor
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response 16 of 43:
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Aug 1 19:35 UTC 1991 |
rexton? i have some shirttail relatives there..
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joni
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response 17 of 43:
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Aug 1 19:52 UTC 1991 |
re 15: I'll ask my dad about that tonight. I got the information
about my great grandpa from a newspaper article.
re 16: Names! I want names!
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polygon
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response 18 of 43:
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Aug 2 06:10 UTC 1991 |
Re 16. My grandparents retired to a small town not far from Kenosha. They
came from opposite corners of Wisconsin (Cassville and Marinette) and both
moved to Chicago, where they met and married. Much later, they retired to
a "neutral corner" of Wisconsin -- Fontana, near Lake Geneva. Both are dead
now, though.
As to famous relatives ... my great-uncle Meyer Kestnbaum was president of
Hart Schaffner & Marx, the big Chicago shirt company. He was in charge of
labor relations at the time that HS&M was lauded for its innovative labor
relations. He lived at 209 E. Lake Shore Drive (supposedly the most
prestigious apartment building in Chicago) and died in 1960.
I also have a first cousin (Diane Savereide) who has been U.S. Women's
Chess Champion.
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igor
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response 19 of 43:
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Aug 2 10:10 UTC 1991 |
another famous relative of mine was robert treat paine.
when he was signing the declaration of independance, his pen slipped
thus misspelling his name and making a bit of a blop.
it figures, doesnt it?
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joni
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response 20 of 43:
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Aug 2 12:29 UTC 1991 |
re: 15 According to my dad (I couldn't get a whole lot of information
from him last night, because wrestling was on but...) apparently the way
it was done with roller skates, is one guy rolls the log, and the other
guy has skates on and does tricks.
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marcvh
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response 21 of 43:
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Aug 3 00:16 UTC 1991 |
(Re #12, I just remembered that the HOLLISTER (my maternal grandmother)
grew up in the area of Battle Creek, raised by her mother's sister
[she never knew her mother.] Curious; could be vaguely related.)
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igor
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response 22 of 43:
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Aug 5 14:01 UTC 1991 |
ok, another installment..
barclay, tingley, corser, nonfoey, sage, tapp, ditmars,pelty
higley, smith,pardee
from michigan, scotland, new york and new england.
treat and trott are from england.
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polygon
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response 23 of 43:
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Aug 6 11:42 UTC 1991 |
Any relation to Prof. Donald Treat of the MSU History Department?
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polygon
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response 24 of 43:
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Aug 6 11:42 UTC 1991 |
Er, I mean, MSU Theatre Department!
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