This fabulous portrait by celebrated photographer Carlos Monforte shows an Aborigine elder in Darwin, Australia in 2017. Monforte specializes in images of indigenous cultures and people as well as scenery, especially in Asia and Oceania. …
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Each January, the genealogy world turns its attention to Salt Lake City. That's because the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) holds its annual series of educational courses during the month and hundreds of hobbyists and professionals…
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"Nurse Betty," an aunt of mine whose DNA I manage, recently forwarded an email she received from someone who matched her on FamilyTreeDNA. I will refer to him as "Mr. Anderson." My aunt and Mr. Anderson share 118 centimorgans (cM) of DNA. …
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I'm going to take a holiday break from the blog. It's Christmas season and we have some travel plans this month. Also, I need to catch up on other projects.
Please look forward to the following blog topics in 2019:
Bønsmoen Farm
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I made an error in my last post. It's the statement that Laura Olsdatter Bohn (1853-1923) immigrated to the United States in 1887, arriving in New York City on the S.S. Island on 8 July.
After I posted, one of my SLIG instructors, Finn…
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One of the mysteries of my Norwegian ancestry has been the question of the Bonn surname: how did it originate and from where exactly? In Norway, the family name and location often go together, based on the old tradition of giving every farm…
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This discovery is actually a couple years old, but I wanted to document it here. I also have an important new lead to discuss. It is a nice example of discovering new ancestors whom you never knew about before. For our family, that's pretty…
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I won a door prize! It was a DNA test kit from MyHeritage DNA, which I received while attending the Association of Professional Genealogists conference in Kansas City last month. It was funny because all four of the men at the conference…
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Every genealogist's path to becoming professional is different. Like many others, it began for me as a hobby. But once I retired in 2016, I got more passionate about it - and more serious. My first year of operation as a professional has…
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In 2016, I wrote a series of three articles published in the Minnesota Genealogist regarding my 2GG Fred A. King (1857-1920).((Steven Nelson Jonnes, “Searching for the Parents of Fred A. King of Saginaw, Michigan,” Minnesota Genealogist,…
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The Mystery of Population Y
Going to the Promised Land!
The Hafslo Connection
Hiatus I
The Perils of Norway Research
Bønsmoen It Is!
Deconstructing the Tabele Family
MyHeritage DNA Results Are In
Projects, Plans, & Accomplishments: 2018 – 2019
Who Were the Parents of Stephen W. King (1824-1865)?