Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts
25 February 2013

Running Them Through the Sluice Box: Continuing to Filter the Records for Anna & Robert

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Hydraulic Placer Mining, ca 1935. Image courtesy of the Denver Public Library Digital Collections, Denver, Colorado.  Have you eve...
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16 December 2012

Panning for Gold in the 1910 Census: Robert & Anna Hamilton

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Famous Breckenridge miner, Barney Ford, depicted in statue with his pan. Since Breckenridge was built on the Colorado gold rush of 185...
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29 November 2012

Robert & Anna Hamilton: 1900 Census Search, not quite done!

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And, we're back. Robert & Anna Hamilton just will not let my brain rest, so I am doing this post on my search for them sooner than...
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25 November 2012

Looking for Robert & Anna Hamilton in the 1900 Census

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My quest for the Hamilton family , and what happened to them after they left Breckenridge, Colorado around the turn of the century has certa...
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06 September 2012

Where Were They? When barbed wire was invented.

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Barbed wire. What we now think of as a simple and standard tool around the world was truly a life changing invention at the time. Accord...
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29 July 2012

Anna (Sadler) Hamilton: Not So Happy in Breckenridge

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The story of Anna Sadler and her husband, Robert Hamilton, is described well in Dr. Sandra F. Mather's book, They Weren't All Prost...
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28 February 2012

Tombstone Tuesday: Eilert & Anna Heerten

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Eilert and Anna Heerten are buried in the Ainsworth Cemetery, Ainsworth, Brown County, Nebraska. Eilert was born in Hanover, Germany, 21...
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