More Family History

One of my most colorful ancestral relatives was my mother’s fifth cousin twice removed, Hildi Heulenschrei, the opera singer. Hildi was born plain Hildegard Schmidt in some little Dorf in Bavaria, around 1890. Nobody knows […]
One of my most colorful ancestral relatives was my mother’s fifth cousin twice removed, Hildi Heulenschrei, the opera singer. Hildi was born plain Hildegard Schmidt in some little Dorf in Bavaria, around 1890. Nobody knows […]
Nobody knows this, but an ancestor of the Minicozzi family invented the wheel. Back in the 3,000s BC, the ancestors of the Minicozzis lived in Mesopotamia. Nowadays we call it Iraq, but back then they […]
Very few people know this, but there were Norwegians on my mother’s side of the family tree. This included one of the most famous Vikings of the early Middle Ages, Thor Knudsen. If you don’t […]