Ancestor Soup

In a recent ProGen discussion group I attended, someone mentioned the usefulness of a “notebook” program for doing research, specifically ...

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...

  My grandfather, Bill Knutz, found himself a couple of special “hood ornaments” on one hot and sunny summer day in eastern South Dakota –...

Marx Christian Seemann was born 15 Nov 1868 in Jackson county, Iowa, the son of Detlef and Elizabeth (Petersen) Seemann, and among the fir...

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

I don’t know about most people, but I have a limited amount of money to spend on society memberships, so I’m constantly having to evaluate b...