Family Story Finder

The sweep of family history across the generations

Brood of Haskells in Chautauqua County
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After service in the War of 1812, Vermonter George Haskell set out with his third wife and many previous children for new lands in the west

Family roots in the Plymouth colony
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Isetta Stetson descended from early Massachusetts colonists, going all the way back to the Mayflower on one side. Nine generations later, her midwestern parents still upheld Yankee values

Grammy — everyone’s favorite grandmother
  • 1941 - 1981

She made each of her six grandchildren feel special

Life on the Western Reserve
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Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s

Rosa’s fateful choice
  • 1936 - 1940

Rosa Feidt was the only Lewi sibling who got out, to her everlasting remorse

The Stetson family’s manifest destiny
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From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country