Successes

When you spend decades working on a hobby and your list of things to still research grows longer every day, sometimes you need a little motivation to remind you of how far you've come.  

Here's a listing of some of the Genealogy projects I'm most proud of having accomplished:

My Successes

Located ancestors: 

• Located Norwegian name and ancestral home of Bertha Olson, paternal great-great-grandmother
• Determined birth parents of daughter-in-law’s great-grandmother
• Completed research regarding grandparents of an adoptee
• Expanded Stroh family tree by determining Christian Stroeh is the child of Magdelana Stroh Krabbenhoft's father
• Determined names of 3x great-grandparents, parents of Margaret Peterson Untiedt

DNA

• Managed 12 DNA kits and analyzed top matches
• Incorporated DNA analytics with paper trails to prove genealogy connections which have expanded my family tree to more than 13,000 persons

Archivals: 

• Shared digital copies of relevant photos with Rock County Historical Society of Minnesota
• Scanned the family archives of Don Untiedt 

Unusual connections: 

• Identified connection between Girard, Kansas and two unrelated lines of my expanded tree