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Judge Winje and the Curious Case of Mortification My great great grandmother Thibertine's second husband, Eric Larson Winje, was a s...

  A Minnesota Doughboy in WWI France Odin Johnson, the fifth child out of ten born to Ole Martin Johnson and Malla (Larson) Johnson...

WWI era newspaper photo from Smithsonian Magazine (public domain) It has now been more than 100 years since the end of the Great War, al...

12 Reasons Why I Love Genealogy and Family History I am an occasional list maker, and this topic ("12") lends itself to just...

Where There's a Will Book, There's a Way: Ole M. Johnson and an Unexpected Guardianship Most of my American family history re...

The Girl Inside My Mother My mother, Doris (right), with her Aunt Stella in March 1969.  El Cerrito, CA. I recently ran across a p...

Old-Fashioned Love and Apple Pie Ole Johnson weds Malla Larson, Feb. 28, 1886. When I realized I would be writing about love for...

The Girl Who "Lived" in a Teacup Hattie Christine Winje, ca. 1887/88 Some of our ancestors led preciously short lives.  S...

I'd Like to Meet:  Julia Johnson Larson Julia Johnson Larson, ca. 1885 I cannot think of an ancestor I've researched who I...

First The challenge for the beginning week of Amy Johnson Crow's 2019 "52 Ancestors in 52 weeks" has to do with ...

My blog and I need a shot of adrenaline, so this year I will be participating in Amy Johnson Crow's "52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks...

My family and friends know how passionate I am about genealogy and history, especially Norwegian-American and pioneer history.  But, there a...