tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18910463867018348922024-02-07T21:59:13.462-06:00Footsteps Behind MeLife can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward. KierkegoardUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1891046386701834892.post-23011033276668095572016-10-02T13:44:00.000-05:002016-10-02T13:44:03.051-05:00Nebraska State Genealogical Society<br />
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Join the <a href="http://nsgs.org/index.php" target="_blank">NEBRASKA STATE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY</a>! Great meetings, conferences and information on there web site. Additionally if you have Nebraska ancestors you can apply for <a href="http://nsgs.org/cpage.php?pt=33" target="_blank">FAMILY RECOGNITION CERTIFICATES</a>. Awesome things to have hanging on your wall with pictures of the honored family. You'll especially want to get these in 2017 because like everyone else in Nebraska, we are celebrating our 150th year of statehood in 2017.</div>
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Special certificates will be issued in 2017 in honor of Nebraska's 150th year of Statehood and the 40th Anniversary of the Nebraska State Genealogical Society for anyone who can document a Nebraska ancestor who settled in Nebraska prior to 1917. There are 3 categories for the Family Recognition Certificates: First Family, Pioneer Family, and Century Family. If you are interested in receiving a Family Recognition Certificate for your Nebraska ancestor visit the NSGS website <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nsgs.org%2F&h=0AQEmF9t7AQH30QEa9UHEhicJOELfU1ZKnA4LDePCt7eRfw&enc=AZNNoVeb41H9IA0NpbNA9cZsvtMrVVnMMSRgQIpKXUsrzrtmZmbKleSq4VhlDyFkS_o-LtdTDyS7Y5rdKUqtIuCytO9EGfux2BZfHOL_VcSuyMNmYblVebT40o3S2ULJ-J8slZP9eGUOHSo0GfcLV0Ex9dVEu0QkYRNq3Ujkqsx8eoCkAuYR6B5ix5J4tUh_n2c&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">www.nsgs.org</a> and have your application ready to send in after January 1!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "tahoma"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Roll dough out to about ½ inch thick using a standard rolling pin. Now take the lightly floured Springerle Rolling Pins and gently but firmly roll across the dough to make a clear design. Cut cookies apart and place on a cookie sheet. Roll out again and repeat until all dough has been used. Let cookies stand overnight to dry. Letting them dry will help keep the image during baking.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1891046386701834892.post-8009472336413268052016-09-24T22:48:00.000-05:002016-09-24T23:00:41.900-05:00Daughters of the American Revolution<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I consider myself a Patriot of the United States of America and for the Liberty for which it stands, one Nation UNDER GOD, indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all. I stand by the Constitution of this fine country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been interested in the DAR since being a member of the Otoe County Genealogical Society while we lived in Otoe County. There I began to see that the DAR was more than just another genealogical society but a body of women who serve.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Founded in 1890 more than 180,000 women in 3,000 units across the United States have joined together to volunteer millions of hours patriotically supporting service members, veterans, awarding scholarships and financial aid to children across the country. They are dedicated to <span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15.232px;">promoting patriotism, preserving American history, and securing America's future through better education for children</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15.232px;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15.232px;">My ancestors have fought in nearly every war or conflict in their dedication to freedom. I have decided in honor of one of the many Revolutionary War Veterans in one of my family lines, the TEAGUE family, I will be submitting application for membership in the DAR and look forward to many years of service. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15.232px;">John TEAGUE b.1750 d 1823 served his country during the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. He is descended by William T. TEAGUE, William Preston TEAGUE, Lavina Ruth TEAGUE (brother Confederate Civil War), Husband Calvin GUNTER (Union Civil War and early Nebraska Settler), James Wilson GUNTER, and my maternal Grandmother Jennie P. GUNTER SHAVLIK. John TEAGUE's Great Grandfather arrived in the Maryland Colony in the 1600's.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 15.232px;">My GUNTER line has many early patriots. In three of my four remaining major ancestral lines I am a third or fourth generation Immigrant, who may have arrived to late to be Revolutionary War soldiers, but in each line many served their new country with pride, some giving all. I am also proud to say that my husband, Michael G. Slocum served his country, on the ground, in Vietnam and many of his ancestors served admirably also.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 15.232px;">I am looking forward to working with and for my unit of the Daughters of the American Revolution.</span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1891046386701834892.post-89364552064549344582015-08-28T08:21:00.000-05:002015-08-28T08:21:04.538-05:00August 28: the deportation of the Germans of the volga<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; overflow: hidden;">
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As of 1764, they formed in both margins of the volga river 106 German agricultural colonies. The people who lived there formed the sociocultural compact known as Germans of the volga.</div>
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They arrived at that place invited by Catherine II of Russia, called "the great", Who gave them a series of privileges to convince them to move to that place. The main activity of these colonies was agriculture and livestock. They had to spend 100 years of hard work and sacrifice to achieve true well-being and stability. Then, the tsar Alexander ii began to cancel the privileges granted by Catalina. In 1874, he released a manifesto which, among other things, established the compulsory military service that lasted several years and the introduction of the Russian language in schools, which until that time kept the German language. This attempt of russification of the Germans, that they maintained their customs and religion from the beginning, he made that some decided to leave the volga and search for other countries to live.</div>
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<br />In 1877, nicolás avellaneda enacted the immigration act in Argentina, and the news came to the Germans of the volga, which began to arrive from the end of 1877 and the beginning of 1878 to found in our country a series Of Villages. In addition to Argentina, also received volga German immigrants the United States, Brazil and Canada; but hundreds of thousands of Germans were in Russia. Those who left the tsarist empire were a very small percentage of all the inhabitants of the area of the volga.</div>
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<br />The Russian Empire was abolished in 1922 and formed the union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Some were still trying to get out of Russia until this was no longer possible starting in 1929 by a decree of Joseph Stalin. More than a million Germans were in the Soviet Union. Under Communism, the villages of the volga Germans came to form first an autonomous region, and on 6 January 1924 was constituted the autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Germans of the volga. Its capital was pokrovsk that in 1931, adopted the name engels. This Republic lasted until 28 August 1941, the year in which it was liquidated by another decree of Stalin. The Germans of the volga were falsely accused of being spies and collaborators of Hitler. A third of the Germans of Russia was shot and all the others were deported en masse to Siberia, Kazakhstan and Alma-ata on the border with China. They took all the civil rights.</div>
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<br />The day following the publication of the ill-fated decree, all the families of all the villages were informed that they had to leave their animals, houses and belongings because they would be deported on the following hours. Some had no more than 20 minutes to prepare. In a short time, soldiers came in cars to load to people and take them to the train station, from where they would be sent. Those who were able, had prepared luggage with clothes, food and things that they considered necessary, but to those who had a lot of luggage the soldiers are removed and tossed. The elderly and children could be sitting in the cars, the rest I was walking. Some survivors say that in the villages where they took more heading could see the suffering of the cows with the udders full of milk, without which no one could be milked, because they were guarded by the soldiers who were not allowed to do anything. Those who had time, took advantage of for baking bread for the trip. When they arrived at the station, they were sitting on the floor, some in the open, huddled and surrounded by the soldiers. When the train came, they saw that they were wagons for the transport of animals. They all had to come up. They made him crying and complaining about the abuse</div>
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The trip was terrible, cold, dirty, in some cases lasted up to two months. Many died for diseases or frozen by the brutal cold. The Deceased persons remained in the wagons or simply were thrown by the tracks. When they arrived to their new destinations, there were cars waiting to take them to their final destination. Many were some days in the open, no nothin ' to be protected from the wind, the rain, snow and the cold. The men and young men were mobilized for the army of work, a form of forced labour with strict military control, high demands and hard as hell punishments. Women and teenage girls they'd be felling trees and the aserraban in the woods, that the boys younger drew with horses. Older women and children wove networks for fishing. All the work is hindered by a high layer of snow of up to 1,20 M, the cold, the wind and hunger. The food that they received was barely 400 g of bread and salted fish. The one that was 10 years old or more and didn't work, it did not receive the bread. All the work was guarded by soldiers who did meet to force of screams and blows. In a few months, half of the Germans died. As the earth was frozen up to a meter deep, people don't have the strength to bury their dead and just the covered it with snow. Frequently came the dogs, carve the snow and he ate the bodies. The banished and prisoners were living in barracks that they themselves had to build or in caves where they died frozen. The Barracks were very precarious and not protected from the rain. All the time the floor was a mud. The temperatures reach 40 degrees below zero.</div>
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<br />This was the tragic situation of the Germans of the volga that did not have the luck out of Russia in time. They spent a lot of things more, so terrible and even worse than the deportation. It's hard to say how many died under those circumstances. Were thousands and thousands. In spite of this massacre of thousands of Germans, Russia couldn't make disappear completely to the Germans of the volga. Some survived, and their descendants who we are, we have preserved with pride their culture, their language and their ethnic identity. Every 28 th of August we recall with sadness to all the Germans who died of the volga unfairly because of the dictator Joseph Stalin.<br />Once dead the dictator absolute and initiated a process of de-stalinization, in 1964, the Soviet government recognized that the Germans from Russia had not been saboteurs, but the damage was already done. In addition, there were impediments to return to the villages of the volga, meanwhile occupied by Russian, and the Germans were never compensated for their losses and suffering. The USSR NEVER PAID compensation to the victims and their families by cutting out the life, health, property, the honor and his identity.</div>
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" the disposal of the president of the supreme Soviet of the union of the Soviet Republics on the transfer of the Germans who inhabit the territory of the volga. According to accurate references received by the military forces, we take knowledge that thousands of subversives and spies are among the inhabitants of the territory of the volga waiting for a sign from Germany to provoke terrorist acts in the region occupied by the Germans. Any German who inhabit the area informed the Soviet authorities on the existence between them of such a huge amount of subversives and spies. Thus the German population of the territory of the volga hides the presence of enemies of the Soviet people and of Soviet power. In the case of that by orders of Germany's disturbing and spies to carry out terrorist acts, both in the republic of the Germans of the volga as in neighbouring regions, the Soviet government in accordance with the laws of the time of war, will be forced to suppress All the Germans of the volga. Preventing unwanted these expressions, and not to shed blood in vain, the chair of the supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, decided to the need to move to all the German settlers living in the territory of the volga. Therefore expatriates will receive land and state aid to be established in the new region. For this settlement were allocated the fertile land of novosibirsk and Omsk Altai District, Kazakhstan and other places neighbors. Unanimously with these measures are proposed to the state committee for the defence territorial, perform immediately the transfer of all Germans of the volga and provide high-land and useful of work for his new and safe place.</div>
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Moscow, Kremlin, 28 August 1941 "<br />Julius Caesar Melchior.</div>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Schedule a time in advance. This gives everyone a chance to prepare.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Prepare a list of questions beforehand and either share them with your relative, or give them an idea of what you want to cover.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Bring several notepads and pens to the interview. If you plan to make a recording, be sure to have a tape player, microphone, extra tapes and batteries. Be sure you get permission for any taping you do.</li>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Take good notes and make sure you record your name, the date, the place the interview is being conducted and the interviewee.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Start with a question or topic that you know will elicit a reply, such as a story you have heard her tell in the past.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Ask questions which encourage more than simple 'yes' or 'no' answers. Try to elicit facts, feelings, stories and descriptions.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Show interest. Take an active part in the dialogue without dominating it. Learn to be a creative listener.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Use props whenever possible. Old photographs, favorite old songs and treasured items may bring memories flooding back.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't push for answers. Your relative may not wish to speak ill of the dead or may have other reasons for not wanting to share. Move on to something else.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Use your prepared questions as a guideline, but don't be afraid to let your relative go off on a tangent. They may have many things to say that you never thought to ask!</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Don't interrupt or attempt to correct your relative; this can end an interview in a hurry!</li>
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<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Put your relative at ease by telling them that they will have a chance to see and approve of anything that you write before you share it with others.</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Keep the interview length to no more than 1-2 hours at a stretch. It's tiring for you and for the person being interviewed. This is supposed to be fun!</li>
<li style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">Consider preparing a transcript or written report as a tangible thank you to your relative for her participation.</li>
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Born in Prague in 1903, Herz-Sommer pursued a career as a classical musician until the Nazis prohibited Jews from performing in public. She then remained in Prague caring for her ailing mother, who was arrested and killed at the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942. The following year, Herz-<b>Sommer</b> was sent with her husband and 6-year-old son to the Theresienstadt concentration camp.</div>
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Theresienstadt was an unusual camp in that, although tens of thousands of people died there and many more were transported from there to extermination camps, it was also designated by the Nazis as a model camp for propaganda purposes. Many prominent Jewish artists and intellectuals were imprisoned there and permitted to maintain a cultural life. The Nazis would make films about life in the camp and, late in the war, allowed International Red Cross representatives to tour it in an effort to create the false impression that Jews were being treated humanely at their camps.</div>
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During her two years at the camp, Herz-Sommer played in more than 100 concerts. As she recounted in an interview, "Whenever I knew that I had a concert, I was happy. Music is magic. We performed in the council hall before an audience of 150 old, hopeless, sick and hungry people. They lived for the music. It was like food to them. If they hadn’t come [to hear us], they would have died long before. As we would have.”</div>
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In September 1944, her husband, Leopold, was sent to Auschwitz and later to Dachau where he died of illness. In May 1945, Herz-<b>Sommer</b> and her son were freed when the Soviet army liberated Theresienstadt. She later moved to Israel and worked as a professor of music at the Jerusalem Academy of Music for nearly 40 years until she emigrated to London in 1986 to be near her son.</div>
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Through it all, Herz<b>-Sommer</b> was known for her remarkably positive outlook on life. Toward the end of her life, she observed: "I think I am in my last days but it does not really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love."</div>
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To learn more about Herz-<b>Sommer'</b>s inspiring story, two books for adult readers were recently published about her life: "A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-<b>Sommer</b>, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor" and "Alice's Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-<b>Sommer</b>".</div>
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You can watch an excerpt of the Oscar-winning documentary, "The Lady in Number 6," at or stream the entire documentary on Vimeo.</div>
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There is also a book for ages 9 to 13 about the children of the Terezin-Theresienstadt camp and the art they created there under the direction of Austrian artist Frederika "Friedl" Dicker-Brandeis.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's celebrate our Welsh Heritage today! I first tried these marvelous little cakes years ago at the Nebraska State Fair and have wanted to make them ever since. So, when a friend said she'd come to tea I knew what I wanted to make! Watch out these little gems are addictive!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found several sights on the internet that shared the hardships of working in the mines during the 19th century life in the small country of Wales, that is situated on the coastal edge of England, where there are more castles per square mile than any other country in the world.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mining was the major source of income during much of the history of Wales from 78 AD when the Romans moved in to current times. Coal has been the major export over time but other metals including lead, tin, copper and even gold has been mined in the small country of Wales. Mine owners were often cruel taskmasters as expressed in the book and subsequent movie, HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY, 20th Century Fox, 1941. The miners spent many hours in the mines without coming out so their lunches and snacks not only had to be sent down in the mines with them but they had to be kept safe to eat. Welsh Cakes or Welsh Miner Cakes could be carried down into the mines in the men's pockets and retrieved when nourishment was needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">This recipe adapted from http://www.noshcookbook.com/2011/06/low-fat-welsh-cakes-recipe.html</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2 cups all-purpose flour (or gluten-free flour and 1 teaspoon Glucomann or Psylum Seed Powder- if you don't have either of these use xanthan gum)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/2 cup sugar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/2 teaspoon mixed spice (I used Pumpkin Pie Spice)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 stick of butter, melted</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/3 cup whisked eggs and 1 tablespoon milk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/3 cup currants</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mix all the ingredients. It should have the consistancy of a cookie dough. Roll into balls.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Flatten out on a floured surface (use the bottom end of a glass). Transfer to pan and cook for 3-4 minutes (watch that they don't get to brown). Flip and cook other side for the same time. If you temp is not low enough these won't cook in the middle.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 1/2 cups flour <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(substitute GF if needed-add 1/4 teaspoon Glucomman or ground psylum seed and 1/2 teaspoon xanthan Gum if using GF Flour)</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/8 tsp salt</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/4 cup sugar</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/4 cup butter, room temperature</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/4 cup lard (don't substitute)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/4 teaspoon lemon zest</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/4 teaspoon vanilla</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/4 teaspoon baking soda</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1/2 teaspoon baking powder</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1 egg</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Add the wet and dry ingredients together and work in the currants. Dough will be stiff enough to roll into balls but be gentle, don't over work. If the dough seems to stiff a bit of milk can be added.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shape the dough into a flattened ball, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 3 hours, up to over night.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Preheat your cast iron skillet on med-low. If it is properly seasoned won't have to brush with oil.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Roll out on slightly floured surface or between two pieces of wax paper, to about 1/4 inch thick. Cut with biscuit cutter.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fry for approximately 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Can be eaten plain as a cookie, served with butter, curd or even fresh diced fruit and whipped cream.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don't stop with just munching on these little delights (although I don't know how you can stop). You can make delish deserts from these little gems like the one below:</span><br />
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you receive an allowance? How much? Did you save your money or spend it?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was school like for you as a child? What were your best and worst subjects? Where did you attend grade school? High school? College?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What school activities and sports did you participate in?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you remember any fads from your youth? Popular hairstyles? Clothes?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who were your childhood heroes?</span></li>
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<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you have any pets? If so, what kind and what were their names?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was your religion growing up? What church, if any, did you attend?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Were you ever mentioned in a newspaper?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who were your friends when you were growing up?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What world events had the most impact on you while you were growing up? Did any of them personally affect your family?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Describe a typical family dinner. Did you all eat together as a family? Who did the cooking? What were your favorite foods?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How were holidays (birthdays, Christmas, etc.) celebrated in your family? Did your family have special traditions?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How is the world today different from what it was like when you were a child?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who was the oldest relative you remember as a child? What do you remember about them?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you know about your family surname?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is there a naming tradition in your family, such as always giving the firstborn son the name of his paternal grandfather?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What stories have come down to you about your parents? Grandparents? More distant ancestors?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are there any stories about famous or infamous relatives in your family?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have any recipes been passed down to you from family members?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are there any physical characteristics that run in your family?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are there any special heirlooms, photos, bibles or other memorabilia that have been passed down in your family?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was the full name of your spouse? Siblings? Parents?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When and how did you meet your spouse? What did you do on dates?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was it like when you proposed (or were proposed to)? Where and when did it happen? How did you feel?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where and when did you get married?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What memory stands out the most from your wedding day?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How would you describe your spouse? What do (did) you admire most about them?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do you believe is the key to a successful marriage?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How did you find out your were going to be a parent for the first time?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why did you choose your children's names?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was your proudest moment as a parent?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What did your family enjoy doing together?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was your profession and how did you choose it?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you could have had any other profession what would it have been? Why wasn't it your first choice?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of all the things you learned from your parents, which do you feel was the most valuable?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What accomplishments were you the most proud of?</span></li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is the one thing you most want people to remember about you?</span></li>
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Joyce Hofer’s <b>green bean soup</b> recipe is adapted from the Schmeckfest recipe that feeds 1,000 guests and 250 workers on each of the festival’s four nights.</div>
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ham bone (optional)<br />
1/2 gallon water<br />
1/2 lb. smoked ham<br />
2 1/2 to 3 cups potatoes<br />
1/2 cup chopped onion<br />
3 or 4 sprigs summer savory<br />
1/2 cup finely diced or ground carrots<br />
2 cans string beans (16 oz. total) or 1 pound fresh<br />
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Cook smoked ham bone or smoked ham in water until tender. The last half hour before serving, add potatoes (cut in 1/2-inch cubes), carrots, onions and summer savory, using a tea strainer hung over the edge of the pot. When the vegetables are tender, add beans, including the juice, and sour cream. May substitute 1 pound of fresh-cut green beans and cream or butter for sour cream. Hofer says the soup is best when allowed to simmer at least an hour, but it can be eaten when completely heated.</div>
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Editor’s Note: This story is revised from the March/April 2014 issue of South Dakota Magazine. To order a copy or to subscribe, call (800) 456-5117. GREEN BEAN SOUP is famous among the German's From Russia Immigrants.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's why I'm doing a Genealogical Do-Over! Click the above "Do-Over" link to find the Facebook Page. You can also go to: <a href="http://genealogydo-over.com/" target="_blank">http://genealogydo-over.com</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week I plan to do the following:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Filed all my loose papers away. Keep out only the vital statistics records, cemetery records and solid concrete evidence of my ancestors life. I'll order some vital statistic records that I don't have.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. I've obtained a copy of a "<a href="http://www.thefamilycurator.com/storage/2013booktour/FamilyCurator-GenCodicil.pdf" target="_blank">Digital Assets Codicil</a>". This will be attached to the wills that my husband and I are creating. I asked my two Biological Sons who would like to receive these files and work and my oldest son jumped at the chance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Creating a list of people I plan to 'Do-Over' the rest of the year, choosing the people on my list for Do-Over for April-June (Harvey, August & August GESCH and Marie, Gottlieb and Gottfried REBENSDORF) and making a list of hard evidence that is needed for each one. Getting their NOTEBOOKS ready to receive documents. (NOTE: July- the end of the year will be SLOCUM/CUNNINGHAM lines)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Downloaded FAMILY TREE MAKER on my computer. I'm still deciding whether I want to stay with this and may choose LEGACY instead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Ordering several books to study for skills needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Preparing documents for: To-Do list, Schedule, Proof Sources List for each ancestor, noting all places I looked even it is did not result in information. "<a href="http://www.familytreemagazine.com/freeforms" target="_blank">FREE FORMS</a>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. Prepared my work space by clearing off clutter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. Read the "<a href="http://www.lonetester.com/2014/12/27-golden-rules-of-genealogy/" target="_blank">GOLDEN RULES</a>" of Genealogical Research</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. Learn Excel QUICK</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. Learn how to scan photos and documents with my printer and phone and transfer them to my computer. (technologically challenged here)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"<a href="http://www.familytreemagazine.com/articlelist/research-toolkit" target="_blank">Toolkit</a>"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a site that give you a treasure chest of free forms, and other Genealogy Tools.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, once I get this all done I'll be ready for the next step.....................WEEK TWO of THIRTEEN</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1891046386701834892.post-25181533971558871492015-03-25T01:00:00.000-05:002015-03-25T01:00:02.028-05:00Otoe County Genealogical Society<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1891046386701834892.post-18080768863834560472015-03-16T01:30:00.000-05:002015-03-16T01:30:03.119-05:00German Rye Bread<div style="background-color: #f1eac9; color: #333333; font-family: 'Liberation Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">
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Combine 3 cups rye flour and 1 package dry yeast with enough warm water to make a smooth paste. Cover with a tea towel and let stand overnight. In the morning, add 1 teaspoon of salt and 6 cups of white flour (a little at a time, add more if needed so dough is not sticky). Knead dough real good and grease around pan and dough and let it stand until it rises double in size. Cut and put into greased bread pans. Let rise 1 hour or until dough rises higher than pan. Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees. Cover with towel after baking.</div>
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<span style="font-size: smaller;"><em>This is the recipe used for the bread served at the German Sausage Demonstration during the 2014 AHSGR Convention in Lincoln, NE.</em></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1891046386701834892.post-68118193117807802562015-03-11T01:00:00.000-05:002015-03-11T01:00:04.935-05:00Spring Workshop by Lincoln/Lancaster County Genealogical Society<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">In 1930 my father, Harvey Gesch, was born at home and was probably delivered by one of these midwives. </span></h5>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Eight midwives gathered at Lincoln’s North Side Neighborhood House on a cool and rainy July afternoon in 1915 to meet with Dr. Chauncey Chapman, the Lincoln Department of Health’s newly appointed superintendent. Chapman had officially begun his duties just the day before and one of the first items on his agenda was the organization of the midwives. Earlier in his career, Chapman had worked with Chicago’s health department, which had been regulating and supervising midwives since 1896. Chapman hoped that the Lincoln midwives would voluntarily agree to a similar arrangement. At the time that he called the midwives together, he was aware of nine midwives who had attended one-sixth of all the births registered in Lincoln the previous year. Unfortunately, Dr. Chapman was unaware until shortly before the meeting that most of the midwives could not understand English. So while they were all gathered together, visiting nurse Catherine Wollgast, whose parents had brought her to the United States from Germany as a young child, did her best to translate Chapman’s message.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1891046386701834892.post-61186803089484739082015-03-09T07:25:00.005-05:002015-03-10T09:11:31.104-05:00Irish Stew<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nebraska was once considered a part of the Great American Desert until the pioneers, hunters and homesteaders came west. Today, Nebraska is the leading farming and ranching state due to the greater vision of those thousands of men and women who treaded its soil to change their future. (text from nebraskagenealogy.org and photo from www.nebraskahistory.org)</span></span><br />
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The woman who made me feel the most loved in my young life was my paternal grandmother. Being a German Immigrant from Russia she had several names. She was born Maria Elizabeth Rebensdorf to her parents Johanne Gottlieb Rebensdorf and Katherine Elizabeth Litt both from Dinkle, Russia but of German descent. <br />
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They came to live in Russia because Maria's 3rd great-grandfather, Frederick Rebensdorf, lived in what is now Palpsdorf, Holstein, Germany. At the time, however, the area was actually under Dutch rule. Discouraged by Religious intolerance, the continued warfare in central Europe, as well as dark economic conditions, Frederick took the Russian Czarista and German Princess Catherine the Great's offer of land and annual spipens to move to Russia. Catherine's idea was that the German farmers would bring progressive ideas to Russia and growth. In addition to the land and stipens, Catherine the Great promised the Germans would be free from military service and most taxes. <br />
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In 1766, my 4th great-grandfather, Friedrick Rebensdorf, age 25, and his young wife Anna Magdalina Schultz, age 21, began the nine to eleven month journey to Dinkle, Russia and are listed as among the earliest settlers to the Volga Region of Russia having established the village 12 May 1767. Now in the late 1880's, when Grandma was born, the Stipens had never been as much as were promised and now were no longer in existence, the land was poor, eventually they were taxed, and now young men were forced in to the Russian Army, usually for life. </div>
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Though life in the old country was seldom spoken of because of the hardships they endured,<br />
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Grandma told me of how the farmers lived in the village and farmed days out on the land. She reminisced of how sometimes they spent days out on the farm land and the family would live in a 'dug-out'. She made a game of jumping off the front of the dug-out roof to the ground 10 feet below. Her home, she said, looked like a picture that hung in her basement living quarters in the North Russian bottom of Lincoln, Nebraska. That picture now hangs in my living room so that I can remember her often.</div>
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By 1910 Johanne Gottlieb Rebensdorb knew the safest thing to do was to take his family to America and Lincoln, Nebraska in particular, following a son, George, and his family who had come to America the year before. So, at age 51 Gottlieb purchased passage for himself, his wife Katherine, and children Maria Elizabeth, 22 (my grandmother), Maria Katherine, Kathla Elizabeth and Peter and they came to Lincoln, Nebraska. They were sponsored by Gotliebb's cousin, Gottford. It should be noted, however, that both Gottlieb and My grandmother planned an early return to Russia. Gottlieb did not want to leave his land unattended and Grandma had a beau she wanted to go home to. Shortly after their arrival in the new land they learned that the land was confiscated and many of the young men were sent to Siberia. The chance of return was gone. My grandmother quickly fell in love with and married Henrich Debus. They started a family. They had four boys when he died and she was left to care for these boys alone. Work was easy to find for someone who was as hard a worker as my grandmother. She maintained two small homes on Clairmont Street in Lincoln for her<br />
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large family for she soon met August Gesch from Berlin, Germany and they were married. They also had four boys before he fell ill with heart disease, was bed ridden and then died. Grandma always told me that she wished she would have had a daughter, if she would have had a daughter, would have named her Susie. So the doll that one of the boys brought home from Germany during the World War, sat in a yellow silk dress, draped in pearls, in a child's rocking chair in Grandma's bedroom, she called her Susie.</div>
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Grandma spent a lot of time with my family, in our home, her home, on vacation to California to see her son, my Uncle, and weekend hunting trips or Sunday drives. If you visited on a Saturday you were sure to find Cadoval Vereniki, Runzas, Roast Chicken or Fried Fresh German Wurst bought from Riefsnieders Grocery a few blocks away. Plus, if Grandma knew I was coming she would make a Cherry Pie, my favorite. </div>
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Because I was raised in a time when children were to be seen and not heard I listened a lot to the conversations of the adults spoken in English and German, I looked at the picture that reminded Grandma of her homeland and imagined what it would be like if I were to live there. I spent countless hours trying to find four-leaf clovers in the grass at my grandmothers, often bare feet as the adults enjoyed their conversations. I also sat for hours near her, playing in the drawers of her treadle sewing machine as she sewed steadily along. </div>
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I would often spend the night in grandmother's feather bed and days helping her water her Lily of the Valleys, ferns, her garden and peach <br />
tree. When I was in my early teens instead of taking the bus home, I would walk two miles to my grandmothers home after school where we would sit and talk or she would teach me to cook ethnic foods from the old country. Then I would walk another 2 miles the rest of the way home before supper or my Dad would pick me up on his way home from work.<br />
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In High School I took a German Class. I was so excited to get to Grandma's house and show her what I had learned. Sadly, she could not understand the High German I was being taught. She, my dad and the rest of her family spoke a dialect of Low German only spoken in the Saxon area of Germany/Denmark where the family had originated. My only reason for taking the class was to be able to join in their conversations, so since the class had no real value for me, I quickly dropped it.<br />
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My grandmother, folks called her Marie, was a hard worker and kept her home neat and tidy. She worked at the old University Club, an upscale, private, downtown Lincoln Club, first as a waitress but retired as the head of banqueting. She sometimes could be found scrubbing her front porch or washing the sidewalk or even the street in front of her home.<br />
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One thing I never heard from my grandmother was a harsh word towards me except when she would tell me to eat more because I was to skinny in her broken English. I always knew that I was loved. The best thing I remember is her old German Bible that sat on the table in her living room with the appearance of being well read. My grandmother died not long after I graduated high school and I was devastated. Her death certificate called her Mary Elizabeth Gesch, I called her Grandma. </div>
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Yesterday I was challenged as to why I am interested in Genealogy. After all, don't I have enough to do knowing the people alive and around me? Yes, that's probably true. Am I living in the past? I don't think so.<br />
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History interests many people as they study those who have gone on before us. When I was in school I was told that we study history so that we don't repeat it. True. History is chalked full of mistakes and if we heed those mistakes and learn from them hopefully we won't make those same mistakes again. As I have studied history, I've not found that we, as a people, pay much attention to that and go happily along repeating those same mistakes just like the defiant child who screams, "I want to do it myself."<br />
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As a human being that has made many mistakes and continues to make them I have to say, wow, wish I would have done that better. This month our Pastor has been teaching out of Nehemiah. What? How boring! Not so! Nehemiah has to face some personal obstacles that many of us face on a day to day basis and I've been reliving last weeks sermon all week in relationships in my life. Sometimes I remember to respond like Nehemiah and other times I don't remember how I should have responded until the incident is over and done. Yikes!<br />
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I've been through some good times and some hard times. Many times like the picture above we forget that folks are going through things. There are good times, but it seems that some of us get dealt hard times more than most. Maybe it just feels that way, others might say they brought it on themselves. That's how rifts begin in families.<br />
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Many times the stories don't jive. How could she behave that way? Often folks are misunderstood or more often people perceive a fact, that just isn't true, then pass it on and a story, quite possibly a negative story, has been created.<br />
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I have parented many children. I have a stepdaughter, I have biological children, I have fostered children, I have adopted children. Mike and I both come from families with huge spances of time between the births of our grandparents and their siblings, sometimes a decade or more. The parent or grandparent each child sees can be a different person. Magnify that with their grandchildren and the gap widens and one grandchild sees their grandparents as this and so and years later there comes along another child whose family doesn't tell about a hard thing in the family and this child sees that grandparent in a totally different light. <br />
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Perhaps this grandparent did some things wrong, handled some things badly. We don't know what they were going through. I've never been an immigrant. I don't know what it was like. I've not been through the depression or any number of other things. I also want to try to bypass wounds that my parents may have passed on to me. Maybe they had a rough relationship with their parents for a time and my perception of them is colored by those feelings. I learned that from my maternal Grandmother who tried to know me, but my parents didn't want to visit them because of hard feelings or perceptions. Thus I thought my grandparents didn't like me. I learned later that this couldn't be further from the truth, but this colored my relation with someone I wish I would have known. Maybe I'm an optimist and am looking for to much good. I'm happy to be in that blissful state.<br />
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One thing I HAVE learned from raising so many children AND from raising other peoples children. When I first began I was on a crusade to save the children of the world, one child at a time. WOW was I in for a surprise. On the other end I have a totally different outlook on the whole thing. It comes down to the heredity vs atmosphere debate. When I went in I thought atmosphere was everything and Mike and I could create a loving atmosphere and these children would turn out okay. We did the best we could with what we had and what life dealt with us. I've now watched these children and my stepdaughter, that I had nothing to do with raising, and see a different story. My thesis now is; Behavior is inherited but can be shaped by atmosphere.<br />
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As I go through my Genealogical studies, while I love the hunt and the solving of mysteries, I am most interested in the stories. What did they do, how did they react? I want to know about them and what joys and hardships shaped their lives. I want to forgive them for their mistakes and rejoice in their victories. I want to accept them for who they were and honor them as my ancestors. I want to learn who they were so I can learn more about who I am. Until I can do that, how can I feel good about myself? The very core of my being is wound up in that DNA. Let's celebrate it!<br />
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Copyright 2015 Jean Gesch Slocum aka Grandma FarmerUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1891046386701834892.post-7474197438785260582015-01-15T06:40:00.001-06:002015-02-27T09:06:50.992-06:00How Many Descendants?<center style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">
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<strong>DEFINITION</strong>: <strong>Descendants </strong>are those that come after you..........<strong>Ancestors</strong> are those who walked before you.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1891046386701834892.post-62082455510928819072015-01-04T13:06:00.001-06:002015-01-04T13:06:18.444-06:00More Recent Past Pictures<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thanks for your service<br />Michael G Slocum</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Mike & Jean (Gesch) Slocum<br />about 1978<br />Sean Slocum on left and Chris Slocum on right</span></td></tr>
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Here they are holding their first Grandchild</div>
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I'm starting to go through pictures for saving to the Family History Files. Here's a Golden Oldie! Who can guess who this picture is? I'll be posting lots of pictures this week as I work on history files.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1891046386701834892.post-7829971825156695122014-12-17T07:27:00.000-06:002014-12-17T07:27:02.509-06:00Tuesday TriviaOkay, according to the sidebar it's TUESDAY TRIVIA so since I was digging through some pictures I decided to pull a few pictures that I think you would enjoy.<br />
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Since it's TRIVIA TUESDAY I can't tell you who is in the picture, the occassion, year, but you can guess. Let's see who figures it out! Answers will appear on Friday!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1891046386701834892.post-89930726188634454552014-11-29T04:31:00.000-06:002014-12-02T04:54:00.978-06:00Love of History Makes Me Travel the Genealogical Path<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I love history, maybe that's why I love Genealogy. I especially love searching for ancestors then studying what was happening in history while they were alive and often guessing what role they played in that history. It's said that we need to study history so we can learn to not repeat the mistakes of the past. I don't know if we do that very well, being human and all. Seems sometimes we need to be hit on the head with a brick before we get it.<br />
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I've been told that I 'live in the past'. I've thought about that a lot. Wondering............just what does that mean? All I know is that when I work in genealogy I work in peace because the folks I'm getting to know are normally all gone and they never yell at me or give me grief.<br />
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The end of 2014 is nearly upon us, what have we accomplished in it? Our footsteps have been set for someone in the future to ponder. My life is nothing special, you say? I say not so. Let your footsteps offer encouragement to trudge on through adversity, enjoy the taste of victory or the peace found in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Your life will and does speak to someone.<br />
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In 2014 we've had the blessing of breaking down some brick walls:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Delmar Slocum 1857-1911<br />
<span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">the </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">son of Delivan the</span><br />
Brother of <span style="font-size: 13.3333330154419px;">Ira Slocum </span><br />
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Through the wonder of Genealogical DNA we have broken through what genealogists call "the brick wall', when the trail runs cold, and discovered more about IRA SLOCUM, Mike's 4th Great-Grandfather. He does exhist! Thanks to DAVE BUMP for getting his DNA done so we could find the match to Mike SLOCUM. Dave's father was adopted and Dave knew that his father was a SLOCUM and wanted to find out more. We hope to get to Indiana this next summer to visit him! This break-through was wonderful and opened more doors and will continue to do so. Delmar, pictured here is the 1st cousin of our Alonzo H. Slocum. Check out that red hair, proving my husband is Scotch/Irish through and through.<br />
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This encouraged me to pound on the door of my GESCH family. Whatever happened to August GESCH, Sr who arrived in the United States in 1893 and his wife Augusta? Where are they buried? Does anyone know anything about them? Are there any pictures? I'm still pounding on that wall but it's beginning to crack. I ended up contacting the local Genealogical Society and hiring someone to do some searching for me since I have the toddler (we adopted a granddaughter in May 2014) and this lady has found some encouraging information and we hope to find burial locations and be able to pull death certificates that may name the parents of these folks and open even more doors. The biggest information on the GESCH family was the Y DNA that showed them to have ASHKENAZI JEWISH (from the tribe of LEVI) background which explains GESCH on the holocaust lists. From what I have found all of the five children who came with August and Augusta from Berlin, Germany practice the LUTHERAN faith. We'll keep chiseling on this wall in the new year.<br />
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Joining the <a href="http://www.ahsgr.org/index.htm" target="_blank">American Germans From Russia Society</a> in 2015 is an expensive venture and will send me on a year long search for more information on my grandmother Mary Elizabeth (Marie) REBENSDORF and her ancestors. My new year for Genealogy has been mapped out for me with this, working on my new filing system and the beginnings of writing the books on each family tree line.<br />
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