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Anecdotes involving the paranormal and supernatural in genealogical research.
A Hudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York through Debra Bruno's absorbing chronicle that uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past and leads to a deep connection with the descendants of the enslaved people her family owned. Bruno, who grew up in New York's Hudson Valley knowing little about her Dutch heritage, was shaken when a historian told her that her Dutch ancestors were almost certainly slaveholders. Driven by this knowledge, Bruno began to unearth her family's past. In the last will and testament of her ancestor, she found the first evidence: human beings bequeathed to his family along with animals and furniture. The more sh...
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"Written as a social history, this book involves the Bradt family originating with two brothers from Fredrikstad, Norway, perhaps as descendants of the Vikings. It traces their journey to the Netherlands , and in 1637, to North America. The author surveys the family's establishment in Albany and Schenectady, New York State...through the era of the American Revolution, including the families that moved to Ontario, Canada at the end of the Eighteenth Century as United Empire Loyalists...The progeny from the two brothers who sailed from Amsterdam in 1637 now numbers in the thousands across North America 360 years later"--Back cover.
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Frank Ensweiler, son of Peter J. Ensweiler and Katherine E. Meisenbach, was born 6 June 1899 in Hammond, Lake County, Indiana. He married Helen Elizabeth Cooke on 18 June 1925 in Gary, Lake County, Indiana. She is the daughter of Samuel Patrick Cooke and Dollie Edith Crane, and was born 21 June 1905 near Hammond, Indiana. She passed away on 24 Oct 1983 at Merrillville, Lake County, Indiana.