Discovery Notebook
Patty Smith's 1846 letter home found tucked into an Ancestry user's old family album
In 2014, an Ancestry user researching the Wicks family line posted the transcript and an…
The Haskells settled in Chautauqua County in western New York
When we last left Captain George Henry Haskell, he had mustered out of the Massachusetts Militia…
Ohio families originated in Cheshire, Connecticut
Before we get deeply into the various family branches that settled in Ohio's Western Reserve we…
Why northeastern Ohio was settled by families from Connecticut
The surprising legacy of the Connecticut Western Reserve
Ruth P. Haskell Daggett's third husband was Amadeus Brooks
We have learned that the elderly lady who was looked after by Herbert and Hattie Stetson was the…
Photo of Martha Haskell Smith on Find-a-Grave
Martha Haskell was Harriet Smith's mother, thus Isetta's grandmother. It is wonderful to find…
Haskell family letters in the collected papers of Thomas Nelson Haskell
The most famous of the 15 children of Captain George Henry Haskell was the second youngest,…
Haskell family members settled in Iowa
Just as earlier generations of the Haskell family had migrated from Massachusetts to Vermont and…
George Henry Haskell in the War of 1812
The thing I didn't know about the War of 1812 is that it mainly happened in 1814, at least in…
The plot thickens—Hattie Stetson was related to Ruth Brooks
I have been working under the assumption that Herbert Stetson was playing the role of a kindly…
Herbert and Hattie looked after elderly Earlville resident, then inherited her property
Herbert Stetson served as executor of the estate of Ruth P. Brooks in 1889. He distributed her…
Isetta studied art education at Thomas Normal School in Detroit
In January 1918 when Isetta Stetson married James Bennett, the event was reported not just in…
Herbert worked at E.L. Bonner Mercantile in Deer Lodge
Herbert Stetson resettled his family in Montana to pursue a late career shift as a store manager
Two school teachers married in Earlville, Iowa in 1879
Fresh discovery suggests Herbert and Hattie met after separately starting new jobs in an Iowa…
When it comes to the Stetson brand, think shoes, not hats
Since we are digging deeper into the Stetson story, this is a good time to address the ten-…
Teaching was a career path for three sons of deacon Josiah T. Stetson
Insights from an 1897 biographical sketch
Where did Herbert meet Hattie?
Besides the fact of their marriage, I've found no other record that places Herbert in Ohio or…
Isetta's mother Harriet Smith descended from the Mayflower family of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley
When I showed my Stetson results to Twyla, she was interested to learn that Cornet Robert…
Isetta Stetson's father Herbert Stetson was a ninth generation descendant of colonial American Cornet Robert Stetson
It took some doing, but I've succeeded in tracing the Eilertsen-Bennett family's Stetson lineage…
Herbert Stetson's death reported
April 30, 1924 obituary in The Butte Miner
What was a "protracted sojourn?"
From 1882 to 1903, ship manifests of alien passengers to the United States included in column 10…
The Peyton family homestead in Traverse County, Minnesota
James V. Bennett spent his formative years living with his sister Sarah (20 years older than he…
James V. Bennett encounters a Native American
Another piece of family lore relates to James Bennett's time on the Peyton farm. During one of…
Lizzie Bennett, gender-bending favorite sister
James V. Bennett spent much of his childhood living among extended family on the…
Eilert's second sojourn in 1896
After sailing with family members to New York in 1893, Eilert Osmundsen returned to America in…
Six Osmundsen family members voyaged to New York in 1893
A big question we are trying to understand is why some members of the Osmundsen/Eilertsen …
Aunt Amy's family
When Kate and I visited her Eilertsen grandparents in Bay Ridge several times in the late 1970s…
Geni user Vidar Arne Kroslid is a third cousin
Yesterday I wrote about the Geni user from Farsund who posted Eilertsen family photos on the…
Norwegian family photos found on Geni
A Geni user named Vidar Arne Kroslid from Farsund posted photos "from the album Bernt Odd…
Eilertsen geography on the Spind peninsula
The map shows the location of the Eilertsen farm at Farbrot and the Nicolaisen farm at Reisvåg…
Zooming in on Reisvåg
Vital records identify the location of the Eilertsen family in Norway in Reisvåg, near to…
Clarence Eilertsen obituary
Eilertsen, Clarence 88, previously of Long Lake, passed away on February 26th, 2018
Roads taken, lives touched
Download the Ed Eilertsen tribute puzzle
Was this the old Eilertsen home in Brooklyn?
In the second image above, we see Ed Eilertsen's 1943 draft registration, filed in Minneapolis…
Norwegian patronymics, or how the Eilertsens got their name
Not knowing much about Scandinavian surname etymologies, I was surprised to learn that Eilert is…
