LAURIDSEN, Karl Henrik: Evidence
In my last post, I explored potential ancestor Henrik Larsen Hvolby’s early life, from his birth in Råsted to his move to Ulfborg. But I need to place him in Ejsing at the time period …
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LAURIDSEN, Karl Henrik: Cracks?
When I last wrote about Karl Henrik Lauridsen, I was stuck. I had three mentions of him in the parish records: a christening in Møborg, a notation about the Møborg christening in Ejsing where Ane …
LAURIDSEN, Karl Henrik: Brick Wall
In genealogy, there comes a point in everyone’s research where there are no more records, and no route further into the past. Unless you’re descended from royalty or some other person of historical significance, that …
So how are we related, anyways?
Curious as to how we might be related to Jacques Vésina? From the descendant tree on the right, you can see that we are related through Emilda Nault. So, Jacques, Marie and family have arrived in …
Jacques Vésina, the early years
(The following details of Jacques Vésinat’s life are from the biographical essay written by Gérard Vézina, and I’m immensely grateful to GHS for spending a weekend reading and translating from the original French.) According to …
A famous hockey player in our family tree?
Well, only very distantly. My mom and I were recently in Québec City on vacation along with Marie and Derwyn Wilson. While visiting Montmorency Falls just outside the city, Marie wanted to stop at ‘Maison …