Long time-no writing

It has surely been a long time since I have written anything in my blog. I have been busy doing the mundane task of cleaning up my paper files. It's material I've collected over a period of time, newletters from family members, researched mateial, picture to scan, etc. I've also been adding the sources, which should have been done long ago, but to much of a novice to relize the importance of them. It wasn't that I didn't write down where the material came from, but was written much in the fashion of notes in the person file.

Back At Last

I just can't seen to remember to post when I work on the family. This past month I have been working on the Nelson-Washburn family. The infor on the Nelson family has been hard to come by in the past. But I finally hit the jackpot. I was able to discover who was Marie's first husband [Joesph Rolfe]and the name of her son [Joseph W.-born in North Dakota]. I found the info on the 1920 Census and again in the City Directories [1925]. I did not find her again until 1940 when she was married to William E Bill] Washburn and her son living with them. The story goes that Joseph W. married, had a daughther who evenutally married a movie producer in Hollywood. Joseph W. died in 1954. I remember Marie telling us that her estate would go to her grandaughter. I haven't a clue about her name. I need to look at her will. I also found picture of Marie and her sister Christine/Jim and their parents Peder M. and Petre C.Jasperson Nelson. Of couse one discovery lead to other twigs and leaves on the family tree. I found the Washburns back to 1789. The Rolfes to 1871. My grand-daughter is about to add another twig. She is having a daughter [Daisy Grace Childress] in October.