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Time rolls on
It’s hard to believe that we are in the Christmas season already, one of my favorite times of year. This has been a year of healing, celebration and downsizing. Our clan grew with…
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Knowing Staats
It is amazing how much I know about my great-great-great-great grandfather Staats Springsteen. He was an illiterate farmer born in colonial America. I know very little about his father Simon or his son…
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Kilroy was here
Mom’s cat, and ours When Mom adopted Kilroy from a backyard litter, she named him in a nod to Dad’s World War II service. Kilroy was devoted to her, but to most of…
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L.D. Springsteen’s pocket watch
The watch This watch was carried by Loyal Davis (L.D.) Springsteen. It was given to his grandson Edwin Frank Springsteen, my father, who passed it on to me. I have forwarded it to…
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A close call
History happens. Our family story almost didn’t. Dad served on the USS Essex in World War II. She was the first of a new class of aircraft carriers commissioned for service in the…
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Greetings from Ron and Dee
We had hoped to join our son’s family on vacation this summer, but the airline software mess gave us a staycation instead. We look forward to a slower time in their company. Our…
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Edwin Frank Springsteen, 1924-2016
My father, Edwin Frank Springsteen, was born a hundred years ago on November 30, 1924. He made his entrance on the Brink farm in Watertown Township, Clinton County, near DeWitt, Michigan. Dad joined…
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Glimpses of Aggie Springsteen
I was fortunate to know two of my great-grandmothers. Grandma Springsteen lived about an hour away in Lansing, Michigan but I remember her extended visits to Sheridan. I was fifteen years old when…
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A brief lesson in European research
I was wrong. European records are a challenge. I was wrong about this one. Understanding European records I have investigated my deep American ancestry for decades and still have much to share from…
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Time to gather at the river
The last Sunday in July is upon us again. It’s time for Verda Case Springsteen Olsen’s clan to meet, greet and eat at the pavilion in East Riverside Park in Belding. The next…
