Family Story Finder

The sweep of family history across the generations

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

Grammy — everyone’s favorite grandmother
  • 1941 - 1981

She made each of her six grandchildren feel special

Young man on the make in the Roaring Twenties
  • March 1919 - September 1929

Walter Ruby hustled his way as a traveling silver salesman, with some career side trips into boxing promotion and medicinal alcohol.