The Kaski & Untiedt Family Trees

 Here's my weird family history find for today. My sister-in-law’s, Jen Kaski, 2 times paternal great-grandparents are Reverend George Washington Grabe and Margaret "Maggie" Dial. They were married in Randolph, Illinois.  Watching an ancestry show, Who Do You Think You Are? where the singer Melissa Etheridge traced her roots. While watching she traced her roots to Randolph, Illinois as well. It turns out that Randolph used to be a major trading hub for New France (Quebec). It was the first state capital of Illinois after statehood.  And here's the most fascinating part, Randolph was originally called KasKaskiA. Ok, so if your mind isn’t blown, mine is. Since Kaski is my maiden name, I know how uncommon it is, even as part of another word. You see lots of words with “ski” or some with “aski” but few with “Kaski”.  While my maiden name, Kaski, came from the name of a farm in Finland, the town name KasKaskiA was the name of the local Native American tribe that lived in ...

The document that is shared below is an excerpt from the 1910 book An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota . It's rare to find such treasures, and for all those Untiedt's or Schwager's that come across this, I hope the archiving and sharing of this also brings you joy!  Jurgen Schwager is my 2nd great-grandfather. Here's a brief tree to help understand the connection. A young picture of Jurgen was posted here  in this link to a prior post. 

 I thought this was cool. It's a 1944 Sioux Falls, South Dakota phonebook page that lists both my great-grandmother Alvina Kaski, and my grandfather, Elroy Kaski. As the youngest child in the family, all his other siblings had fled the nest by 1944, and my grandfather was wrapping up high school.

Some more Draft Registration cards: these are for my great grandfather, John Bernard Mann. WWII WWI Below is also his WWI draft registration card.

 I found this treasure related to my grandfather. It's his WWII Draft Registration card.

My great aunt Elaine (nee Kaski) had been married to Albert Rothbauer, bearing two children from the marriage. In adding brief pieces of lineage related to the former Albert Rothbauer, I also came across the Petition for Naturalization of Jan (americanized as John) Rothbauer, Albert's father. I share some of the most interesting tidbits of my research here. In the screenshot of the petition below, you will note that the place of birth is listed as something like "Kerselderf, Austria, now Poland". Keying that in to my genealogy application, no such location could be found. Google was also not helpful.  So I went back to what I originally had for John Rothbauer's place of birth, Klimiec, Galicia, Austria. I also had trouble locating that specific location, but I could find some history of Galicia. Thank you Wikipedia. Here's a quick snippet. From Wikipedia about Galicia Galicia (/ɡəˈlɪʃ(i)ə/) (Ukrainian: Галичина, romanized: Halychyna [ɦɐlɪtʃɪnˈɑ]; Polish: Galicja; ...

 As a huge coffee addict, I found this connection to coffee worth its own post. My great aunt Erma Kaski was briefly married to Theodore W. Cook. Turns out that Mr. Cook is a Folgers descendant.  Theodore W. Cook’s great-great grandparents were Samuel Brown Folger and Nancy Hiller. Samuel and Nancy were the parents of Charlotte Folger and J.A. Folger. J.A. Folger was the founder of the Folgers coffee brand.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._A._Folger