I believe this is my ancestors farm in the background homesteaded 1871. The workers are Japanese displaced by WWII.... Nice neighbors, they went through alot. The Japanese family bought 1/2 my ancestors farm during hard times during the depression, and took in workers that lost their homes during the Japan panic.
Ancestry charges a fee per month, but you can often go to your local public library to use it for free. The co. won't let libraries provide access remotely, usually you have to use it on-site (in the library). The Mormons also have a lot of information they have compiled, although I've found their site to not be as useful. Genealogy can be very interesting - found out my great-grandfather emigrated from England to the U.S. on the Luisitania in the early 1900's, the ship that eventually was sunk and led to us getting involved in World War I. The paperwork showed who his sponsor was, and how much cash he had when making the trip. Think it was $5!
I am green with envy that you found that information! My previous residence I could access many resources remotely via my library card.
The library's resources are very convenient for me, since while I'm a firewood hoarder at night and on weekends, I'm a librarian by trade! It was actually a patron who is into genealogy who found the info for me. She's researched her roots to 16th century England. Sometimes she gets stymied though - one of my great-grandmothers was from Newfoundland, and the records in that area of the world are somewhat sparse. Good luck in your research wildwest!
Oh I am envious!! I had a few remote resources in Colorado, library card since expired and I havent bothered to get one in Wyoming yet. One might have been something like heritage (quest?) and I can't remember the other. I wonder if your patron might be interested in a side job for me? It sounds like we have a bonus paycheck this Christmas
This is my Great Great Grandfather, b 1834 Berks PA, d 1929 Denver Colorado. His grandfather was from Germany.
I'll get in touch with her. I don't know if she's ever done paid research. She loves it so much, she does it on her own time, at least she has for staff members at our library. She's a gem!
Wow you all really into this!My little story,for years thought we were german(last name BARE,thought they changed it at immigration).Turns out our orig. ancestor(over here) was nordic(oh great,you can always tell a norweigian,but you cannot tell them much!)Sems he went through at least 5 countrys before he got here(someone chasing him?),had ancesters on both sides of civil war,to this day less than 2000 in this country of this bloodline.As far as new,my moms dad was right off the boat from germany(kasch) wanted to fight nazis,enlisted,so they put him in the coast gaurd and sent him to the great lakes.So depressed he drank himself to death.But the wild snow there right now,was like that when my mom was little,climate/weather goes in cycles.Got a local relative here(bares stove and spa in bozeman) went in there to buy a stove after first moving here(did not know we were related) got asked to leave because ofa "family argument".Never went back.Got phone call 15 years later from their kids(doing the ancestry thing),and their relative had moved here about 1930 from northern va.I'm fom western md.Have not had contact since thenThat's my little story,hope it did not bore yoall.But does look like lost a distant relative (a bare) in the world trade center,what are the odds of that?
Very cool, that's a prime gold nugget for genealogy ! My ancestral name I'm chasing is common as "john smith" Too many possibilities... So 2 different Bares out of only 2000 moved to MT? Interesting....and with the one from norway doing all that traveling, must be wanderlust in your genes Sorry about the Bare in the Trade Center. My brother in law was in the towers the week before the attacks, heartbreaking. LOL I thought BobBare was screen name for Bob Bear, get it? Bears in Montana, Rockies?.... I should not assume anymore Love the story!
Yep I got picked on a lot in school.Actually I ended up here as my sister and brother in law moved to kalispell quite some years ago,was on the way to oregon or alaska,ended up here,next door neighbors are friends from school days,which is why I stayed in this area.No longer speak to sister and bil,something to do with their long term heavy dope smoking,they now hate me.Most rest of family back in MD.Younger sister in texas,last I talked to her she was in the midle of an insurance investigation on an oil rig,and at the same time was setting up filming locations for a movie.She is the brains of the family.
Woodwidow , Ancestry has some new digitized wills!! I found one of mine from 1857, (I paid a kid on craigslist years ago to make me a copy and mail it to me, but much easier to see on the computer). Hope you find some goodies too!!
I haven't been doing too much on there but I have noticed that there are more Parish records showing up in English records and more coming out of the US as well.
My grandpa on my mom's side had a cousin that researched the family history back to the late 1400's. He found out that historically the family was shipbuilders, and traced them back to Germany and then to Austria. Back in the 90's he even traveled to Austria and found distant relatives still owned a company working on the Rhine in the shipbuilding industry. In the mid 1800's, one of my ancestors traveled from Germany the USA with his family and started a business as a cobbler, I believe in Cincinnati. He traveled down the Mississippi on a flatboat to sell off all of his shoes, and then got a ticket on a steamboat to make it back up the river. That steamboat happened to be the Sultana, which was overloaded with freed Union prisoners. Anyone that knows maritime history knows that was the largest boating accident in US history, and my ancestor happened to be a part of it. The story goes that he survived the explosion, and grabbed onto the tail of a donkey who drug him to shore. But sadly he died of sickness several days later.
