I decided to pull a random envelope out of one of my many boxes of research material down in the basement. This particular envelope was from the Illinois State Archives and it was sent to me clear back in October, 2000. (I don’t even remember ordering it!) It contains copies of selected pages from the […]
The ‘Red Book’ from Crete
In April 1991, Louis, Joan, Dale and I (along with baby Kyle) traveled to Nebraska to see some relatives and we decided to stop in Crete to see what we could find out about the Rademacher family. There are no Rademachers living in Crete anymore, so we had a list of places to visit to […]
Welcome to Rudeen Roots
Here’s the first entry in my new Rudeen genealogy blog. This is a photo of the family of Gustav (“Gust”) and Augusta Rudeen, our first Rudeen ancestors to come to the United States. Gust and Augusta came in 1881. This photo was taken many years later and shows them along with their five children: Minnie, […]
Joseph Rademacher Family – 1920
This is the first entry in my new “Rademacher Roots” blog. I’ll be posting pictures and details about the Rademacher family history. Read more about this project here. This is my favorite historical Rademacher photo (click on it to see the large version). It shows Joseph and Josepha Rademacher, who emigrated from Germany in the […]
