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Riverside County, California, United States
I am a native of Illinois and grew up in Wilmette, a northern suburb of Chicago. I have one sibling, an older brother. After dropping out of college, I moved to California in 1973 with my first husband. I married my present husband, Butch, in 1977 and got 4 children in the deal. They have gone on to make me a grandmother 24 times over and a great-grandmother of 10 with two more on the way. Three years after I married Butch I returned to school. I got my bachelors and masters degrees in speech communication and was a professor in that field for 13 years. I retired in 2001 to return to school and get my doctorate in folklore. Now I meld my two interests - folklore and genealogy - and add my teaching background, resulting in my current profession: speaker/entertainer of genealogically-related topics. I play a number of folk instruments, but my preference is guitar, which I have been playing since 1963. I am a Board Certified genealogist and more information on all this, as well as direct contact info, is on my Circlemending website.

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Tombstone Tuesday, 6 October 2009


Irene TRAPSCHUH was my first cousin, twice removed. Because of a divorce, her part of the family lost contact with my part of the family.
Irene was the daughter of Heinrich (Henry) Ignatz TRAPSCHUH and Margaretha (May) LORENTZEN, b: 14 April 1884, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; d: 6 October 1900, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (109 years ago today); buried in Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee. She was 16.
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