The sweep of family history across the generations
Rosa Ringel married Pinkas Twiasschor in a borough of London in January 1911, at the same time that Twiasschor's sister wed another Berlin businessman. What was that all about?
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
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
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
Families from Connecticut settled northeastern Ohio in the early 1800s
From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country