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

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

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