News from Karen

If you are related to me or to Dale, you might want to pay attention to this blog!

I have a large and always-growing collection of family history papers, articles, documents and artifacts that really ought to be shared with everyone in the family. Dale and I have also done some traveling in Germany and in Sweden and have many stories to tell about our ancestors’ lives there.

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Here are just a few of things I’ll be telling about in the coming months:

• First of all, I’m going to begin sharing some information about the Rademacher, Kreifels and Cogburn families.
• On the Frasier side of my family, I recently got copies of my great-great-great-grandfather’s service and pension records from the Civil War.
• I have some old issues of the “Ceresco News” just brimming with little anecdotes about both sides of my family – it will be fun to see who was doing what on random days during the 1940’s
• PHOTOS! I have tons of pictures.

You know, I had always intended to put all this stuff into books but quite honestly I have too much stuff to fit in a book, not to mention that the minute the book is printed, it will be outdated. I’m always finding something new! I think putting this information out to all the relatives in bite-sized chunks will be more fun anyway.

I hope you can come along for the ride!