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Treasure Chest Thursday – A Wealth of Knowledge and Photographs
I first began researching my family tree after the death of my grandfather. I had always been interested in the family stories and information. My passion for history encouraged this. However, I hadn’t really focused on the evidence and background side of my family stories until my grandfather was gone. See my article, The Family Story Teller for more on this. Starting out on this side of the family tree would have been an almost impossible task if I hadn’t [...]
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Matrilineal Monday – The Family Line With All The Mothers
I have recently spent a great deal of time researching a family line in which there is a peculiar lack of paternal lines present. Generation after generation, I found information on the mothers’ side of the family tree and nothing on the fathers. It has been quite frustrating! On the one generation in which I actually did find the father’s information, it is the mother’s information that is missing and the one that I am most interested in tracing down. [...]
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Mary Noser Mueller
Mary Noser Mueller (1852-1931) Occasionally, a woman seized the opportunity to run a family owned business upon the death of her spouse. Mary Mueller became Vice President of Orbon Stove Co. when her husband, Solomon, died. She served from 1910 to 1918. She proved to be a formidable woman, traveling to Colorado and Kansas to follow-up on real estate interests and journeying to Texas to secure her husband’s business interests. On occasion, she took her young grandchildren as companions! Share and [...]
