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The top 10 family history treasures

Todo list

Illiterate

Earliest college graduates

People who spent time on the Isle of Pines, Cuba

Died young

These people were over one year old and less than eighteen.

Infant deaths

These counts exclude the day of death as a full day. Infants are under one year of age. After one year they become toddlers.

Body mass indexes

Age disparity

Twins

Passports found

Living relatives born in "old country"

Sweden

Norway

Germany holocaust survivors

They each gave Holocaust testimony to the USC Shoah Foundation:

Alsace

  • no known Lindauers

Ireland

  • Hogans in Hollygrove, Ireland. There is one of the Hogans that now lives in New York City. He has the family home in Ireland as a place you can rent.

Farthest back in a line

Germany

Holland

  • Abraham Kershaw (1815-1853), was born in New York, but had an ancestor from Holland. His father was Rem Cashow (1768-1816) of New York.

England

Strasbourg, Alsance

Ireland

Norway

Sweden

Top 5 farthest back in any line

All are from Swedish lines where the records go back the farthest

Nobility

Scotland

Sweden

Double crossovers of family

Wikipedia

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Tragic deaths

Syphilis

Murders

Death by alcohol

Car accidents

Suicides

Sepsis following a surgical procedure

Alzheimers

Institutionalized

Natural disasters

World War I deaths

World War II deaths

Influenza pandemic

AIDS

Great Northern War deaths

Holocaust deaths

Prison

Tragic lives

  • Ralph Kohlman Freudenberg (1937-1995) fell out a window and landed on a spike from a wrought iron fence. Later neighborhood kids set him on fire and he was disfigured and in a wheel chair the rest if his life. He was declared an incompetent when he needed medical attention and no one in the family would take responsibility, so he died in the hospital and was buried in an unmarked paupers grave.
  • Marion Webb (1894-1931) was placed in an orphanage with her sister Lillie when her father abandoned the family. She later took her own life when she discovered her husband didn't have a valid divorce from his previous wife.
  • Ruth Staderman (1915-1934) died in the Leake and Watt's Children's Home after finally reaching age 18 and being able to leave.
  • Isaac Kershaw (1842-1894) died a pauper

Immigrant ancestors

These people migrated to the United States:

Free and Accepted Masons

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Holiday births, marriages, and deaths

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Legal profession

Scales-of-justice





Ministers by trade

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Teachers by trade

Brack Vocabularius rerum

Lived over 90 years

Insight

Soldiers by trade

1stEarlOfCallendar


Printers by trade

Printing Press, 1829 woodcut by George Baxter

Seaman by trade

Anchor

Norton Y-chromosome

Sorensen

Norton Y-chromosome

Genographic

Haplogroup R1b (M343)

  • 393 13
  • 19 14
  • 391 10
  • 439 11
  • 389-1 13
  • 389-2 17
  • 388 12
  • 390 24
  • 426 12
  • 385a 11
  • 385b 14
  • 392 13

Genetree via Sorensen sample circa 2003-2005

Your test results for the range 15950 to 16569 and 1 to 617 are: location 16223 16292 16519 73 189 194 195 204 207 215 263 309.1 315.1
your sequence T T C G G T C C A G G C C
reference C C T A A C T T G A A -- --

I just had my mitochondrial DNA tested and this is the sequence they found: 16223T 16292T 16519C 73G 189G 194T 195C 204C 207A 215G 263G 309.1C 315.1C
I know my maternal line is from Farsund, Norway.

Descent from Macleans of Scotland

Graduates of Uppsala University

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Graduates of University of Tartu

Jämtland regiment

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