Following the 72-year release schedule, the 1950 census became available to the public in April of 2022, and genealogy organizations leapt on it. This census has a significantly different form from previous ones. It is oriented vertically and arranged more... Continue Reading →
Many people wonder how people know other people who are related to them, but are unsure how or, at least, how to talk about them. Here is a handy chart that may help you label your relatives accurately. The basics... Continue Reading →
We say goodbye to our friend Dean Kimble, who did three history chats for us on his life and family fur business. He was struck down in the prime of life at the age of 102. Dean was a woodworker... Continue Reading →
This author had the pleasure to sit down recently with Fran and Arden Druckamiller and go thru the Druckamillers' Bremen relations. The Druckamillers themselves were from the Syracuse, Indiana, area, but they married into the Heyde-Heckaman family. They allowed Historic... Continue Reading →
In February, members of the Huff family visited the History Center and reviewed family research with this author. We found census and obituary documents, viewed family photos in our collection and theirs, and uncovered numerous articles in the archives of... Continue Reading →
William Bornemann came to Bremen to start a shoe-making business in 1893. He had been born in Westphalia, Prussia, in 1870 and emigrated in 1888. He married Elsbeth Saenger, another German immigrant he met by arrangement in South Bend. They... Continue Reading →
In 1962, Ernest Annis of Bremen published a history of his Huff family tree, going back to Johann Phillip "John" Huff (1791-1872) and Maria Catherina "Catherine" Lahm (1800-1874), who immigrated to the US from Germany around 1835. This is freely... Continue Reading →
February 26 would be Doc Bowen's 98th birthday. The History Center has a nice display of photos of his life and career. Doc's companion through 47 years from their wedding in 1939 to her death from a rare bone marrow... Continue Reading →
Charles Jackson "CJ" Hoople came to Bremen in 1876 and opened a saloon that would become the most venerable tavern in Indiana: Hoople's. His father was John Rawden Hoople, who had come to America from French Canada in about 1830... Continue Reading →
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