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Feb 13, 2013 •
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My new blog site is http://matthewkmiller.blogspot.com
Feb 2, 2013 •
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With new clues very elusive, my attention has been divided among the various branches of my tree, hoping for some big discovery that could really grab my attention and get me excited to discover new i...
Jan 11, 2013 •
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While I have not tracked them back to Germany yet, I have made progress on my father's father's father's family.
The Bixenman Family History book, by Sister Catherine Seemann had the most informati...
Dec 31, 2012 •
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I knew the families in Lee County, Iowa, formed a tight-knit community with members of the various families marrying members of the other families at many different points. This meant that seeing a Me...
Dec 22, 2012 •
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I was just at the St. James Cemetery in St. Paul, Lee County, Iowa a couple of weeks ago and got a photo of my great-great-grandmother's headstone. I was quite happy. This morning I'm disappointed in ...
Dec 13, 2012 •
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While in the area for my uncle's funeral, I was able to stop in at St. James Cemetery, St. Paul, Lee County, Iowa. I found my great-great-grandmother's grave!
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.c...
Dec 8, 2012 •
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I am sad to report the death of my Uncle Urban Panther. He was born May 6, 1917 in St. Paul, Lee County, Iowa to Benedict Panther and Elizabeth Menke Panther and died December 7, 2012 in West Point, ...
Nov 26, 2012 •
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After emailing the long list of people expected to be interested in the republishing of the Bixenman Family History Book, Volume 1, I received an email from a distant cousin. She said, "I wish I had k...
Nov 26, 2012 •
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I finished making my way through the Find-A-Grave site for the St. James Cemetery in St. Paul, Lee County, Iowa. It ends up I don't have 75%+ of the people buried there in my database. I "only" have a...
Nov 21, 2012 •
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I know this isn't what Scott is looking for as a Genealogy Speaker blog post but I still think it's close enough to the subject and something I think makes a good post. I don't have a favorite genealo...
Nov 16, 2012 •
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I was looking through my direct ancestors to see if I had photos of headstones for those that could be available. I found that I was missing a photo of the headstone of my great-great-grandmother, Mar...
Oct 28, 2012 •
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I just republished the Bixenman Family History book, Volume 1. Thank you Paula for sending me good copies of the original book. I've received the first copy of the book and verified it looks good. You...
Oct 22, 2012 •
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I finished scanning and editing the pages of the Bixenman Family History book and am in the process of generating and verifying the pdf file for on demand publication. Hopefully I'll have a copy of th...
Sep 24, 2012 •
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My great-grandmother, Elizabeth Julia Dunzinger is my mystery. I've found a few tidbits over the past couple of years but still haven't figured out where she was born or who her parents were. Elizabet...
Sep 8, 2012 •
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I've been working on recreating (to republish) the family history books of the Bixenman family using my poor quality scans for the pictures and retyping all the text. That's quite a job when just volu...
Aug 26, 2012 •
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I was able to meet up with the ship expert on Wednesday and got good scans of the ship image and the ad for Norddeutscher Lloyd from the time-frame of my great-grandfather's voyage to America. It list...
Aug 19, 2012 •
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I'm not sure if I want to try to keep up on a genealogy blog but thought I'd give it a try. Just my thoughts on what I've been doing lately and challenges I'm having.
My genealogy work load is thro...
Jul 16, 2012 •
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I tracked down my grandfather's parents to Hancock County, Illinois. They were Thomas Doran and Mary Ann Kelly. They eventually moved to Fort Madison, Lee County, Iowa and are buried there. I'm lookin...
Jul 14, 2012 •
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Looking through the 1940 Census. Found my father and most of my aunts and uncles that married into my mom's family. Found my dad (John A. Miller) and my uncle (Aloysius Dohman), both 10 years old, liv...
Jul 2, 2012 •
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The Panther Family Reunion 2012 is coming up this weekend. This is for descendants of Moriz Panther and Elizabeth Birk from Moesbach, Baden, Germany. Two sons remained in Moesbach (Phillip and Donat) ...