Family Story Finder

The sweep of family history across the generations

Widow Patty Smith Swett and six children by two husbands were among the first settlers who staked claims in Wapello County near Ottumwa in May 1843

Farmers and seafarers from the south Norway coast

Members of a farming family took to the sea both as an occupational calling and a means of emigration

Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s

Betty’s father was a prosperous merchant who came to Pomerania from East Prussia.