Who Are All These People?

Who Are All These People?

Identifying the folks in old photographs can be challenging, and I'm sure we're not alone in having boxes of photos of unknown people and places. For genealogists everywhere, it's an…
A Tale of Two Homesteads

A Tale of Two Homesteads

In 1838, our ancestor Friedrich Wilhelm Twellman was 40 years old when he took his then-pregnant wife, Henrietta, and their young family and boarded a ship near Bremen, Germany, for…