Cornelis Arie Koops feeding his pigs in Iowa (later 1920s)
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
My Great Grandparents are 8th Cousins!
Maybe I'm a little weird, I think it's kinda cool that my wife's great grandparents are 8th cousins. Maybe "interesting" would be a better choice of words than cool...but in any case, the whole process has been really fun. Years of research led to finding a connection that forms a circle that spans 10 generations and around 300 years. Raymond Clifford Wisner married Beatrice Marie Hawver in 1921, approximately 300 years after their 7th great grandparents were born. I tried making a graphic for it in Excel. Check it out:
Friday, March 15, 2013
Four Generation Friday - RIP Grandpa Wisner
Yesterday I received the sad news that my wife's grandpa (Lawrence Wisner) passed away. He was 88 years old. We were able to visit with him recently and even though he wasn't able to speak, he still seemed to enjoy the fact that we were there. While we were there we were able to take some four generation pictures with him and our kids. This is one with our youngest son Owen.
Lawrence Wisner (1924-2013)
Raymond Wisner (b. 1948)
Sandee (Wisner) Broersma (b. 1975)
Owen Broersma (b. 2008)
Lawrence Wisner (1924-2013)
Raymond Wisner (b. 1948)
Sandee (Wisner) Broersma (b. 1975)
Owen Broersma (b. 2008)
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Tuesday's Tip - Sioux County Newspapers
I recently was forwarded a link to this site that is awesome if you are researching people in Sioux County, Iowa. Sioux Center has a pretty big Dutch community and I have a lot of relatives on the Koops side of my family that are from there and still live in the area. Just with a quick search I found a number of obituaries that I hadn't seen before. The only caveat is that it seems to me that the older newspapers don't have the greatest scans. They are readable, but not necessarily something that you would grab the image of and post. But they are great for information and transcribing!
siouxcounty.newspaperarchive.com
siouxcounty.newspaperarchive.com
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
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