Wally Huskonen here, starting a new blog. I have been blogging before using Blogspot, and now I am using WordPress. So far, it seems to represents an upgrade in capabilities. I am creating this blog in a website format using WebHostingHub. We’ll see how that works out. Going forward, I will be adding material from
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My Grandson Wins Family History Writing Competition
The following article was written by my grandson, Korey Wallace Huskonen, and entered in the Western Reserve Historical Society My Favorite Western Reserve Ancestor writing competition. He won $50 for first prize in the 18 and under category. Needless to say, I am quite proud of his article. My Favorite Western Reserve Ancestor: Walfrid Herbert
Read on »Newspaper Article about a Dog Named Buster Adds Information
One day last week I received a phone call from Carl Feather, a feature writer for the Ashtabula, Ohio, Star Beacon. He was calling at the suggestion of Penny Redmon, my wife’s first cousin once removed, to see if we had a photo of Buster, the beloved pet of my wife’s grandfather, James Van Court.
Read on »Googling for “Isaly Fire in Andover” in 1955
In our emails back and forth recently, my brother, Walfrid came up with some events at home while we were growing up in Andover, Ohio. While I didn’t remember all of them, I did take note so that I can compile a time line of our growing up in Andover, and especially our house at
Read on »Identifying Year of a Photograph, with help from Google
Today, I was comparing notes with my brother, Walfrid, trying to guess when a photograph of our grandmother, Ida Maria (Hytönen) Huskonen was taken, probably by our father. I was able to enlarge the digital file of the photo large enough to be able to read the days of the month on a calendar hanging
Read on »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
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