The Kaski & Untiedt Family Trees

Kodak, to many, is synonymous with photography. The iconic brand would be formed a decade after these pictures were taken. I found the pictures below which are of my great-great grandmother Anna Wiebener Schwager and her husband Jurgen Schwager. Anybody see a family resemblance? Picture of Anna Wiebener was reportedly taken in 1872. The picture of Jurgen Schwager was taken around 1870. Sources:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27206359/jurgen-schwager https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27206979/anna-margaretha-schwager I've reached out to the person who posted these pictures to see if they have anymore. So exciting.

This article was saved by mother's cousin Bud Untiedt, then passed to my uncle Don Untiedt, who then shared with me in 2017. I read it today for the first time and thought, Wow, what an interesting journey. Enjoy! Here's how the Boelman's tie in to my family tree.

I started researching my family tree for a project in 5th grade. Having grown up a military child, living where the military sent us, which was never close to my extended family, the concept of aunts, cousins, and grandparents, was pretty foreign. Also since 3 of my 4 grandparents were deceased before I was born, there was no opportunity to even glimpse those mysteries of my ancestral past.  The project started with a pile of index cards (which I still have today), followed by asking my parents for all the details they could recall. Who did they marry? When were they born? Where do they live now? I was likely the only 13 year old excited to attend a 1994 reunion of my grandmother's cousins so I could start to put faces with the names on my lists. In life before the Internet, my tree grew manually, in a very personal way, through one-on-one phone calls, or rare in-person visits. When AOL brought email to every personal PC, I could suddenly collect information from people overnight; ...