Ancestor Soup

Mary Yost (right) and her sister Nothing says "South Dakota" to the Seeman/Yost family like the ring-necked pheasant. It all began...

I love unique things – household décor items you won’t find anywhere else, unusual jewelry, one-of-a- kind picture frames, etc.  So it only...

I love to do research.  I've been known to work on other peoples' ancestors when I hit an impasse on my own.  But I also love to se...

Another page from the scrapbook of my mother-in-law, who was a fixture at the Hand County (South Dakota) Courthouse for 50 years, working fo...

 A page from the scrapbook of my mother-in-law, describing the early farm home of her family, now gone.

Frederick August Seemann, son of Hans and Maria Seemann of Clinton county, Iowa, was born 01 Apr 1866.  He left the farm to pursue his drea...

Hans Seemann, along with his brother Detleff, were the first of their family to leave Germany bound for the United States.  Hans was the so...

Detlef Seemann and his brother Hans left their native Germany in 1853, looking for a place to relocate their family.  The brothers settled i...

John Henry Seemann was born in 1800 in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, the son of Hans Seemann and Christina Petersen Moldt.  He married Maria,...

The Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the most popular New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, offered jobs to unemployed yo...

From upper left, clockwise: Hans Seemann, our immigrant ancestor, 1825 – 1893.  He initially settled on a farm in Clinton co., Iowa, a...