Tag Archives: Location: US: Iowa

Week 12 Prompt: 12 This week’s 52 Ancestors theme is the number 12. My brain went to the year 1912, and I was curious to see who in my family died in 1912.

Week 1 Prompt: First I’ve decided to participate in my first 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks challenge. Since this was my first-ever post for the challenge, that was going to fit the first theme. However, when I randomly picked a number from 1 to 63 (covers six generations on the ahnentafel), up popped number 14, which corresponds to my great-grandfather George Rottman, who has his own first-related story. I’ve written about George many times over the last ten years, but I’ve never shared the story of his first marriage, which […]

Wow!  I just received an email from the State Historical Society of Iowa explaining that the back issues of The Annals of Iowa are available online and are searchable.  I am not a member of this organization and I was able to access everything I found in the archives (I could spend days checking this out!!).  It looks like they have everything dating back to the publication’s start in 1863 all the way through 2014 (there appears to be a gap between 1884 and 1893, perhaps publication seized for a […]

Weekly column sharing genealogy-related things that I’ve found.

Mary Eva REEDER (or LASSER) is my second great-grandmother. I am not certain if Reeder or Lasser is her maiden name because each of the records I currently have list one or the other. I suppose it’s possible that she was married once before and that one of the names could be a married name. Perhaps one day I will know the answer, but for now, I’m sticking with Reeder. This family has been difficult to research for many reasons, but mainly because they moved around the country several times.  […]

In September, I wrote about my Link Collection to Various Genealogy & History Resources Online.  This collection is my Diigo bookmark library targeted at genealogy.  I created a list for each state, as well as a few countries and various topics.  There is also a list for general genealogy resources.  Over the next week or so, I will highlight some of these lists. Iowa Genealogy Following is a list of my favorite Iowa resources.   I use many of them on a regular basis.

This lovely couple hails from the Cresco, Iowa area.  Unfortunately there is no identifying information.  Given the gold beveled edge, it is possible that this cabinet card was produced between 1885 and 1892.  The imprint reads:  Borlaug, Cresco, Iowa.

A continuation of letters written by my great-grandfather, George Rottman.  The letters were written to his children while he was away from home visiting family in Iowa and Wisconsin in the 1940s.