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<div style="font-size:162%; border:none; margin:0; padding:.1em; color:#000;">Welcome to the family tree wiki,</div>
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<div style="top:+0.2em; font-size:95%;">A genealogy site that [[Special:UserLogin|anyone&nbsp;can&nbsp;edit]].</div>
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* '''[[Bernstein Family]]''': Descendants of [[Avram Bernstein]] and [[Chia Rosenberg|Chia ("Carolina") Rosenberg]], lived in Romania in the mid- to late-1800s.
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* '''[[Linn Family]]''': Descendants of [[Hugh Linn (1753)|Hugh Linn]] and [[Sarah Widney]], who immigrated in 1788 from [[Newry, County Down|County Down, Northern Ireland]] to [[Hugh Linn (1753)#Locating_Hugh's Farm|Concord, Pennsylvania]].
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* '''[[Lindstrom Family]]''': Descendants of [[Gustaf Lindstrom]] and [[Johanna Christina Carlsdotter]], who immigrated from Sweden to Phelps County, Nebraska between between 1877 and 1881.
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* '''[[Rabinovich Family]]''': Descendants of [[Nathan Rabinovich]] and [[Esther Schulman]], whose children [[Moishe Rabinovich]], [[Reuben Rabinovich]] and [[Eli Rabinovich]] immigrated from the Russian Empire to Chicago, Illinois and Baltimore, Maryland between 1900 and 1910.
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* '''[[The Widney Family|Widney Family]]''': Descendants of [[James Widney (1753)|James Widney]] and [[Ann Erwin]], who immigrated in 1784 from Ulster, Ireland to Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
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* Create an [[Special:UserLogin|account]] and edit your own biography
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* [http://jimlindstrom.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=Needs_research&go=Go Contribute to articles that need genealogical research]
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* [http://jimlindstrom.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=Needs_cleanup&go=Go Contribute to articles that cleanup]
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== Family Heads ==
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* [[John Arscott (1469)|Arscott, John]] (c. 1469 - 1537)
 
* [[Nicolas Bauer|Bauer, Nicolas]] (1650 - ?)
 
* [[Caspar Booher (1758)|Booher, Caspar]] (1758 - 1831)
 
* [[Johanna Christina Carlsdotter|Carlsdotter, Johanna Christina]] (1841 - 1916)
 
* [[Henry Chilcot|Chilcot, Henry]] (1525 - ?)
 
* [[George Ensor|Ensor, George]] (c. 1721 - ?)
 
* [[Michael Freytag|Freytag, Michael]] (1675 - ?)
 
* [[Wilhelmina Hedell|Hedell, Wilhelmina]] (1871 - 1955)
 
* [[Louisi Heini|Heini, Louisi]] (1849-1923)
 
* [[Thomas Hole|Hole, Thomas]] (c. 1518 - )
 
* [[Wilhelm Hoppe|Hoppe, Wilhelm]] (1855 - 1925)
 
* [[Johann Hummel|Hummel, Johann]] (1827 - 1899)
 
* [[Johann Michael Lebert|Lebert, Johann Michael]] (c. 1775 - ?)
 
* [[Johannes Libsen|Libsen, Johannes]] (c. 1630 - ?)
 
* [[Gustaf Lindstrom|Lindstrom, Gustaf]] (1843 - 1896)
 
* [[Hugh Linn (1753)|Linn, Hugh]] (1753 - ?)
 
* [[Maria Margaretha|Margaretha, Maria]] (c. 1710 - ?)
 
* [[Matt Nelson]] (1855-1940)
 
* [[Roger Reeves|Reeves, Roger]] (c. 1660 - ?)
 
* [[Anna Maria Margaretha Schlor|Schlor, Anna Maria Margaretha]] (1747 - 1817)
 
* [[Margaretha Barbara Stuepfert|Stuepfert, Margaretha Barbara]] (1830 - 1907)
 
* [[Johann Ludwig Teisel|Teisel, Johann Ludwig]] (1745 - 1811)
 
* [[August J. Vaughn|Vaughn, August J.]] (1854 - 1947)
 
* [[Johannes Volcker|Volcker, Johannes]] (c. 1645 - ?)
 
* [[Josef Volk|Volk, Josef]] (c. 1775 - ?)
 
* [[James Widney (1728)|Widney, James]] (1728 - 1770)
 
 
 
== Fixup Projects ==
 
* [[http://familytree.wikkii.com/wiki/Category:All_articles_needing_additional_references All articles needing additional references]]
 
 
 
== Wish List / Bugs ==
 
* [[Template:Reflist]] has a bug and is causing pages like [[Johanna Christina Carlsdotter]] and [[Laura Lavina Linn]] to show up with an error message. -- [[user:Jim.lindstrom|Jim.Lindstrom]] 0:44, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 
* Ancestry.com has a nice [[http://c.mfcreative.com/affiliate/ceg/collection/KennedyTree.jpg family-tree visualization]] that would be cool to borrow/copy. -- [[user:Jim.lindstrom|Jim.Lindstrom]] 00:48, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 
* We could use a way of indicating estimated dates, especially in marriage and residence templates; so as to indicate time estimation without creating a template error or a [present value] result.--[[User:Elindstr|Elindstr]] 06:15, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 
** This should be do-able.  I'll see what I can do.  What convention would you prefer for approximate dates?  c. 1880?  Something else? -- [[user:Jim.lindstrom|Jim.Lindstrom]] 16:29, 9 October 2010
 
***"c." works--[[User:Elindstr|Elindstr]] 16:36, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
 
****I implemented this on marriages.  See: [[Johann Hummel]].  The way it displays now (m. c. 1800-c. 1900) looks kind of dumb, though.  Is there a better way? -- [[user:Jim.lindstrom|Jim.Lindstrom]] 0:44, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
 
* I'd like to be able to see a chronological slice in the tree.  Who's alive in, say, 1850, and where do they all live?
 
* I wish that if someone on a page were related to you, the site would show you how you're related to them (e.g., by showing you a parent/grandparent/great-grandparent through whom you're related to the person) -- [[user:Jim.lindstrom|Jim.Lindstrom]] 03:34, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
 
* It's a bit odd that most of the starting points are now ascendants of Grace.  Maybe this is begging the question of what this site's purpose should be.  At first, I thought it would just be cool to combine the Linn and Lindstrom history on one place.  Does it seem likely that folks beyond those families will be interested enough in this site to be offended that their family is not listed on the start?  I'm not sure.  -- [[User:Elindstr|Elindstr]] 04:39, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 
** Other sites (e.g., rootsweb, ancestry.com) address this by letting each user/family create their own database.  This achieves letting the family curate which people they want to have show up in their view, but fails at encouraging cross-family collaboration and integrating people across databases (i.e., does the person have TWO records?  Who keeps them in sync?).  Need to think of a better solution to this problem... -- [[user:Jim.lindstrom|Jim.Lindstrom]] 23:43, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
 
 
 
== Guidelines ==
 
* [[Naming Scheme]]
 
* [[Citing Sources]]
 

Latest revision as of 00:33, 8 July 2011

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Frank Linn in WWII
Franklin John Linn (1911 - 2002) grew up in Shelby, Iowa. After high school, Frank enrolled in the School of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State College in Ames. In his senior year Frank was captain of the Iowa State wrestling team, conference champion, and Midwestern A.A.U champion. He achieved All-American status in 1937 and 1938 in the National Collegiate Championships.

In 1936, Frank was hired to pose for a mural which was being prepared fro the Ames Post Office. Frank posed in the artist, Lowell Houser's home. The theme of the mural was: "The Development of Corn". Frank received fifty cents an hour for his work. The mural still graces the lobby of the Ames Post Office.

Frank was called up to serve in WWII in 1942. He was based in India and Burma and helped care for pack animals in the Army. His war stories tell of fishing with dynamite, secret overnight hunting missions, and encounters with elephants. (more...)

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