Ancestry.com recently announced that it had expanded its U.S. School Yearbooks Collection. I tried it out and found my cousin, Milton Siekkinen, and his wife-to-be, Mary Jeanette Scovill, in The Dart, the 1939 Ashtabula High School yearbook. Milton was listed as a participant in Glee Club and Mixed Chorus. Mary Jeannette’s activities included Band (she
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From Finland to America: How the Evert Huuskonen Family Traveled to Ashtabula County, Ohio
(I wrote this piece a few years ago. Except as noted, the links in the end notes still worked as of 2011.10.06)–WDH) By the time I first became interested in genealogy, my paternal grandparents, my parents, and all my aunts and uncles had passed away. There was no one to ask about the rustic wooden
Read on »Launching a New Blog about My Genealogy
For a couple years now, I have been publishing a blog called NEOhio Genealogy Blog. It has provided me with a platform for commenting on genealogical resources, events, and news in Cleveland, Ohio, and the 12 counties in Northeastern Ohio (aka the Western Reserve). Now I think I have the hang of blogging, so I
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