Okay, I am going to start at the beginning.
They tell us when you are either writing a story, or getting your family history together, start with what you know.
When someone asks me, "What do I need to do to find my history?" Of course I say, start with yourself and go backwards.
Well, that is what I am going to do today. I will first do my dads side, (since its much shorter, and easier to keep track of the names!)
1) Me (smiley face) b 25 June 1973 Mexico, Mo
2) Dad (Jerry Lee Heyen) b 9 Jan 1949 Kilbourne, Ill
3) Charles George Heyen b 22 Nov 1914 Humboldt, Ne d 25 Dec 2001 Carthage, Mo
3) Sybil Henrietta Scott b 23 June 1921 Glen Lake, Mn d 11 June 2008
Okay, I have to stop here, grandma was adopted, so I am also going to put her birth name, and as far back as I have found on her birth family
3) Henryetta Blanche Jackson (same dates as above)
(birth family)
4) William Henry Jackson b 1878 Chateaugay, Ny d unknown (possibly MN)
4) Blanche Gertrude Shirley b 1901 d unknown
5) Paul Jackson b 1856 Ny (possibly Chateaugay, Ny) d 1899 MN
5) Kate LaGrave b 21 Jan 1857 Franklin Center, Quebec d unknown
6) Louis LaGrave b 1819 Quebec, Canada
6) Helen b unknown Scotland
We had been told from what we could discern from the orphanage/adoption papers, that grandmother family was Scottish, so I guess that comes from Helen?
(adopted family)
4) Henry Anders/Andrew Scott b 1 April 1880 Otter Tail Co, Mn d 26 Dec 1955 Douglas, Mn
4) Sarah Laurense Thorstenson b 13 Aug 1885 Battle Lake, Mn d 14 June 1941 Battle Lake, Mn
4) Thomas Gerd Heyen b 28 July 1885 Nemaha, Ne d July 1974 Louisiana, Mo
4) Betty Florence Boehm b 10 Mar 1890 Oakford, Ill d 15 Dec 1975 Louisiana, Mo
5) Andreas N Scott b Jun 1843 Denmark d
5) Anna Juliun b 1843 Denmark d unknown
5) Cark Olaf Thorstenson b 13 Oct 1846 Eidsvold, Norway d 16 Dec 1931 Battle Lake, Mn
5) Mina Hansdatter/son b 12 Dec 1853 Loken, Norway
5) Gerd Gerdes (Gerjets) Heyen b 7 Nov 1843 Strackholt, Ger d 27 Nov 1922 Deshler, Ne
5) Seedina Seeden Freeman b 6 Aug 1850 Ostfriesland, Ger d 18 Feb 1929 Deshler, Ne
5) Gustave Boehm b Dec 1848 Saxony, Ger d 6 May 1935 Oakford, Ill
5) Mary Emma Aden b 26 June 1856 Oakford, Ill d 24 Nov 1931 Oakford, Ill
6) Thorsten Hermanson b 1801 Fejring, Norway d unknown
6) Else Mikklesdatter b 1806 Eidsvold, Norway d unknown
6) Hans Martin Hanson b 9 Dec 1815 Ovre Egeland, Norway d 25 Aug 1890 Kvinnesdal, Norway
6) unknown
6) Magnus Boehm b 1 Feb 1825 Germany d 15 Aug 1901 Menard Co, Ill
6) Johannah Eberlien b 1 Aug 1826 Germany d 6 Aug 1908 Oakford, Ill
6) Henry Aden b 1818 Hanover, Germany, d 28 Sep 1895 Oakford, Ill
6) Mary Corman b 1819 Hanover, Germany d 26 Feb 1898 Oakford, Ill
And that is all she wrote on this family, it isnt much, Im still working on it, but at least its a beginning (even if I have been working on it for over 20 years now!)
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There has been an update on Henrietta. Her birth mother's name apparently changed a few times. We believe she was born Genevieve Haynes (Haines), changed to surname of Shirley, then the name Jeanette or Jennie Shirley. Then to Blanche Shirley. In the 1905 census, she is Jennie Haines, in the 1910 census, she is Genevieve Shirley, in the 1920 census, she is Blanche Shirley. Then on her marriage certificate in 1920 she is Jennie Haines. On her sons death record, she is Blanche Shirley. After that, we have no trace of her.
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