Michael John Neill's Genealogy Website
Things always make more sense when one has more information. I was not really certain which member of the extended Goldenstein family travelled on the same boat as Willm and Tjede Ehmen did in 1889. The Goldenstein appears to have been 14 at time of arrival and not 17, based on how the numbers are […]
In 1940 the eighty-seven year old wife of my cousin Willm Ehmen flew from Moline, Illinois, to Seattle, Washington. When she was returning home, news of her flight made the local newspapers. She had an interesting take on using the new form of travel. “Following the same route taken sixty-one years ago by prairie schooner, […]
Sometimes the best discoveries are made by accident. A search of the “New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957” database at Ancestry.com located a reference I was not expecting simply because I searched for the wrong years when querying the database. My goal was to try and find a manifest entry for the arrival of William Ehmen into the […]
