A note on the MONVAL mailing list this morning reminded me of another loose end: my great-great-grandmother's maiden name. I've located two death certificates for Elizabeth WARREN's daughters that show her maiden name. Unfortunately, they are different. Her daughter Kate STEIN's record shows it as SOLANGER, while her dauther Elizabeth ROSS' record shows ZUELENBERGER. The two names sound at least a little alike. My grandfather filled out the death certificates for his father Alonzo and his uncle John and since he did not know his grandmother's maiden name, those are no help. The records of Dixmont Hospital, where she died in 1873, have no information on her maiden name. I should try again to determine her oldest son Jacob's date of death in West Virginia and see what his death certificate says.

This weblog records the satisfaction and frustration of attempting to construct the history of a family. In this case, it is the history of my family, which has its roots in Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin in the US and Norway, Germany and Britain in Europe. I work on the project on and off as time allows, making progress slowly.