RICIGS recently received a submission of a family history “The First Simmon” to share on our website Family Histories Collection page. The history is based on the Peter and Catherine Simmon family who immigrated from Germany in 1833 and eventually settled in Rural Township in Rock Island County. If you […]
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By Linda Bergren Polich. As genealogists, we each have our family tree information saved in some format … maybe your tree is online on Ancestry, FamilySearch, or MyHeritage. Or your tree may be on your computer using a genealogy software program. And some of us have our tree online AND […]
My Great Grandmother Emma was born in Sweden, and even though both her marriage and 1882 emigration records listed her birthplace as Högsby Parish, Kalmar County, Sweden, her birth record and parents could not be found. Then a distant Swedish cousin contacted me about a DNA match with our family. […]